My great great uncle liberated that camp 2 days after anne frank died, if only it could have been 2 days more perhaps they could have saved her, it's sad to think about that really. I love her diary and any films, I love anything to dow ith the holocaust but it's sad to think it ever had to happen in the first place.
shareSo your uncle is still alive? How old is he now? If I'm not mistaken Anne Frank died in March 1945 and Bergen Belsen was liberated in April 1945.
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'My great great uncle liberated that camp 2 days after anne frank died'
With the greatest of respect to your great great uncle, I'm afraid that this can not be true. Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British and Canadian troops on 15 April, where as Anne's death is generally accepted as being 'some time during March'.
It may be that you (or your great great uncle) could be referring to Peter Van Pels, who died in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, on 5/6 May (sources differ as to the exact day, it may have been overnight) 2 - 3 days before the camp's liberation by American troops.
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I also understand that even though some prisoners lived until liberation, for some help came too late and some died right AFTER liberation because their bodies had been too badly damaged by disease, abuse, and malnutrition.
And I think Peter died in late September, either of malnutrition or starvation. Maybe it was his mum or dad who died right before liberation.
We had a speaker at my Holocaust literature class who was at Bergen Belsen while Anne Frank was there. It is sad to think of how many died just before liberation or who survived it only to die later.
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Peter Van Pels went on a march or something.
He died on the march and he wasn't found.
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it could have been two days. they dont know when she died, they just speculate.
as far as the van Pels', Peter survived the march to Mauthausen (I've been there, so grim!) but he died in the infirmary days before. Auguste died at Theresienstaadt from illness, and Hermann was gassed shortly after they arrived at Auschwitz.
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Actually now it's believed Anne died earlier then originally thought ... February
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