Said Anne Frank In The Holocaust: Bergen-Belsen

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.’’ Said Anne Frank in the Holocaust. She was at Bergen-Belsen, a death-pit of horror and she still was happy. That says a lot doesn't it? It says that people can still be happy in even the worst times because they can appreciate the things that they do have and not the things they don't. Imagine yourself living in a concentration camp, starving, dehydrated and dying from typhus. Would you be happy? Or would you wish that you were home? During the Holocaust, Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp with over 60,000 prisoners, thousands of people died everyday and there were still survivors,there was still hope, this is why Bergen- Belsen was such a remarkable yet horrifying place.
It was infamous and not many people knew what went on there. Prisoners were sometimes traded for money from other governments. A survivor from the Holocaust said “When the British men came to help us I couldn't even get up I had to have my sister help me up because I was so weak from malnutrition and dehydration. When she helped me up I went outside and I saw that the gates were open! Me and Heather were so happy words can't even describe how happy we were,soon after we got into a tank and were taken to a place where The Red Cross came to help us.” said Margaret Muller. The Holocaust research project interviewed her, they got to hear her horrific story. Margaret said that she had been there for 2 years as a prisoner of war. She was Jewish, but she was trying to hide it, there had been a battle where she had lived and got captured by the
Just weeks after Bergen-Belsen was liberated people were already getting back to their old lives. There was a place called the “displaced persons camp’’, the camp held over 11,000 jews from Bergen-Belsen. Everyday at least 20 weddings happened every day. Also just months after the camp was liberated 2,000 new children were born. The Displaced Person’s founded an elementary school and 340 children attended. The Displaced persons also founded a high school,an orphanage and a religious school called a yeshiva.

So to sum up, Bergen-Belsen was a horrible place with unbearable conditions, cruel guards, and sickness over-rules the whole place. But there were still survivors and hope still was clenched in people's hands. People may have only weighed 94 pounds and may have been so ill from typhus that they could barely walk. But they still managed to survive and hold on to the so little that they had, this is why I think Bergen-Belsen was such a remarkable yet horrifying