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The Children of Belsen

A survivor of the Holocaust reunites with her 15-year-old self via 大象传媒 archive recordings.

In April 1945 a 15-year-old Dutch Jewish girl, Hetty Werkendam, was interviewed by the 大象传媒 in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation by the British. Mike Lanchin travels to the site of Bergen-Belsen in Germany with the now 88-year-old Hetty and her family. Hetty vividly recalls the deprivations of the camp, and of seeing the dead bodies piling up outside the children鈥檚 barracks. Hetty says its a story that needs to be told again and again in order not to be forgotten by the next generation.

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