My Grandmother's Account of Her Liberation From the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
On April 15, 1945, 70 years ago, British soldiers liberated Bergen-Belsen, and my grandmother, then Charna Francus, became a free woman. She was 19 years old when WWII began, and the proximity of Kalisz, her Polish hometown, to the German border, thrust her almost immediately into the turmoil of the…