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The Guardian // World // Europe

‘I want to tell the world’: Bergen-Belsen survivor recounts horrors of Holocaust

Tuesday 15th April 2025, 1:11PM

Lola Hassid Angel can vividly recall the hunger, disease and death at Nazi camp liberated exactly 80 years agoFor a long time, Lola Hassid Angel did not want to talk about the horrors of her childhood. Her experiences of the second world war had not been light: by the age of eight, the Holocaust survivor had “reached adulthood”, seen things she should never have seen, heard sounds she should never have heard, and been confronted by terrors she could neither forgive nor forget.Which is why the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British forces on 15 April 1945 is as much a cause for joy as for the horror to come flooding back. Continue reading...

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