(Jewish Group) Tributes paid to Bernard Levy, 'kind' liberator of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Tributes are being paid to Bernard Levy, a “gentle” and “kind” liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, who has passed away.
At the age of just 19, Bernard was a corporal in the British Military Government. He and his fellow soldiers liberated Bergen-Belsen, where it is estimated that over 50,000 Jews, Czechs, Poles, anti-Nazi Christians, homosexuals, and Roma were murdered by the Nazis.
He was one of the first soldiers to arrive, and his role was in the relief operation; due to rampant typhoid in the horrendously overcrowded camp, one of his main jobs was spraying everyone going in and out with DTT pesticide in an attempt to reduce the spread of the disease.
By the time the army arrived at the camp, many of the estimated 60,000 survivors were just clinging on to life, laying on the ground next to corpses. Another of Bernard’s jobs was to sort the dead from the living.
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