An Israeli organization of survivors of the Nazi holocaust, Sheerit Hapleita, protested today West Germany’s intention of referring the remains of those who were murdered in the Bergen Belsen camps and buried in common graves. It called such action a “real defilement of the dead and a deep offense to human feelings.”
In an open letter to the entire Israeli press, the survivors’ organization hit the alleged Franco–German agreement to separate Jews and others and rebury them in a special ceremony. “We ourselves helped carry the remains of our dead along with others into the common cemetery and it was already then impossible to identify the bodies, owing to the state of decay.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
