A memorial to thousands of Jews buried in mass graves will be unveiled on the site of the infamous Belsen concentration camp this Sunday, marking the first anniversary of the liberation of the Jews in Belsen by the British Army.
The British policy with regard to the liberated displaced Jews is different than that followed in the American zone in Germany. The British, for example, have not set up separate camps for Jewish refugees, and only large congregation of them is the 7,000 at Camp Four at Hoshne. Jews leaving Poland for various reasons rarely go into the British zone because there they receive only the same food rations as the Germans, or 1,042 calories daily. On the other hand, what are described as “regular DP’s,” or those who were in the zone from the time of the liberation, now receive 1,750 calories.
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