'At Belsen,' a poem

April 15th marks the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in 1945. The camp had claimed the lives of over 50,000 prisoners.

A new book, “Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen,” explores the tragedy of the Holocaust through a personal yet universal perspective. Author Menachem Z. Rosensaft, WJC’s Associate Executive Vice President and General Counsel, was born in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp after WWII, to parents who had survived numerous concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The collection of poems is a testament of the lasting grief of the Holocaust.

A new artistic series from the World Jewish Congress illustrates these works.