When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, approximately 500 children―an unusually large number, most of whom were either orphan or had been separated from their parents―were among the survivors. Many of the children were placed at special Kinderheim barrack, many, however, were spread at different locations at the concentration camp.
Children were from eight months to fifteen years. In barrack number 211 they survived thanks to the motherly care of two female prisoners. The children came from a variety of countries and had different experiences of the Holocaust. "Polish children" in the Kinderheim were imprisoned in the ghetto already in October 1939. They were witnesses of the mass deportation of their friends and families to the death camps in 1942.
