Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Summary: Describes conditions in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately prior to liberation Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Belsen,Fenelon Archive/File: pub/camps/bergen-belsen/fania.02 Last-modified: 1993/03/07 Fania Fenelon provides this grim vignette just prior to the discovery of the camp at Bergen-Belson, with the war nearly at an end - although she didn't know it, she, too, would come down with typhus within a day or two... "The stench had become intolerable; wrapped in my cloak, a priceless possession, I went out in search of air, to stretch out, to sleep in the open. The ground was muddy and cold, so I kept walking. In front of me, a pile of corpses balanced carefully on one another, rose geometrically like a haystack. There was no more room in the crematoria so they piled up the corpses out here. I climbed up them as one would a slope; at the top I stretched out and fell asleep. Sometimes an arm or leg slackened to take its final position. I slept on; in the morning, when I woke up, I thought I that I too must be losing my reason. Hounded, I ran to the infirmary, but Marie's assistant told me that Marie had typhus." Fania Fenelon weighed 65 pounds the day the British arrived... "The SS had given the order to destroy us and burn the camp. April 15, 1945; we were to be shot at 3 P.M.; the British arrived at 11 A.M." (Fenelon, 253-255) Work Cited Fenelon, Fania, with Marcelle Routier. Playing For Time. New York: Athenium, 1977. ISBN 0-689-10796-X
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