The Remarkable Klara Belkin: A Holocaust survivor in Saskatchewan (Part 1)
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Most of us are familiar with the story of Anne Frank: a young Jewish girl who, along with her family, hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II.
After two years of hiding, they were betrayed. Anne was eventually sent to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany.
While Anne Frank was in one section of the Nazi camp, Klara Belkin was in another.
Klara and Anne were alike in many ways. They were both 15 years old when they arrived in Bergen-Belsen, both were born into Jewish families and both had their lives upended by the horrors of the Holocaust.
Yet, there was one major difference: Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated. Klara, on the other hand, survived.
Today, Klara Belkin lives in Saskatchewan. She sat down with 650 CKOM's Brittany Caffet to share her remarkable journey in her own words.
In episode one of this three-part series, Holocaust survivor Klara Belkin, 95, recalls her childhood in war-torn Hungary and the harrowing journey to Bergen-Belsen, a notorious Nazi concentration camp.
After two years of hiding, they were betrayed. Anne was eventually sent to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany.
While Anne Frank was in one section of the Nazi camp, Klara Belkin was in another.
Klara and Anne were alike in many ways. They were both 15 years old when they arrived in Bergen-Belsen, both were born into Jewish families and both had their lives upended by the horrors of the Holocaust.
Yet, there was one major difference: Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated. Klara, on the other hand, survived.
Today, Klara Belkin lives in Saskatchewan. She sat down with 650 CKOM's Brittany Caffet to share her remarkable journey in her own words.
In episode one of this three-part series, Holocaust survivor Klara Belkin, 95, recalls her childhood in war-torn Hungary and the harrowing journey to Bergen-Belsen, a notorious Nazi concentration camp.
