Helen bamber autobiography of paul

She was born in London in and joined the Jewish Relief Unit in A few months after liberation in , she was sent to Eilshausen to work with Henry Lunzer, the head of the Jewish Relief Unit in Germany and was part of the first rehabilitation teams to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In she founded the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture.

She died, aged 89, in I was taken by a driver to Belsen and there was already a small team of people under the auspices of Rose Henriques, the wife of Sir Basil Henriques. Camp 1 had been burnt down. The thing I remember most was the smell and I have never forgotten it. It was the smell of geraniums, like that sweet dank smell of geraniums and even to this day I sometimes go on my small patio to smell [the geraniums].

In Belsen I spent time talking to the survivors in those dark, cold barracks.

Interview Summary: Helen Bamber, born in in London, England, discusses her childhood; her father's involvement in rescuing Jews from.

When you first listen to the stories that survivors tell you, you feel overwhelmed with the enormity of it all. That kind of if quality. Most of the stories were around the if — when nothing, but nothing, could have saved them and you listen, knowing it. The stories were terrible and some have never really been told properly.

The story of how one woman lost an eye when she was being whipped and how the other women had to stand round and watch this. Stories like that which you heard time and time again. You felt so helpless.