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Kinderheim or Kinderbaracke number 211 (children’s barrack) in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was apparently run by the Nazis as a showplace for the International Red Cross. This organization’s representatives visited the place periodically, probably without being shown the rest of the camp. At such occasions the children were, of course, scrubbed extra clean.
There were two categories of inmates in the hut 211, mothers with children and lonely children. In the Kinderheim in the barrack 211, there were children of different nationalities. Later a group of forty-nine Dutch Jewish children were placed there followed later by more Jewish children who had come to Bergen-Belsen from Buchenwald, Ravensbrück and Theresienstadt. The barrack 211 was turned into children’s home for around 150 boys and girls ranging in age from infants to teenagers.
The Magdiel Orphanage was established as an orphanage and a school for children who survived the Holocaust. Magdiel, was a farming village founded in 1924 by Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and Lithuania, later joined by a group from the Netherlands. In 1964, the village of Magdiel along with Ramatayim, Hadar and Ramat Hadar merged to form Hod Hasharon.
The Magdiel Orphanage was established as an orphanage and a school for children who survived the Holocaust. Magdiel, was a farming village founded in 1924 by Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland and Lithuania, later joined by a group from the Netherlands. In 1964, the village of Magdiel along with Ramatayim, Hadar and Ramat Hadar merged to form Hod Hasharon.
