Holocaust Remembrance Day: Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem born in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shares story
In the final months of World War II, Lola Kantorovich did her best to hide her pregnancy. It worked, almost to the end, because most of the prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had stomachs bloated and distended from prolonged hunger. When she went into labor, in March 1945, the Russians were advancing through Germany, … Read more