Témoignage d'Albert Bigielman, déporté de France au camp de Bergen-Belsen

Discover the testimony of Albert Bigielman, deported from France to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Biography: Albert Bigielman was deported at the age of 12 with his mother, Fajga. His father, Majer, had joined the French Foreign Legion and was taken prisoner of war in Stettin. This is why Albert and his mother were deported on convoy 80B, which left the Drancy internment camp on May 3, 1944, bound for Bergen-Belsen. At the camp, they were placed in the section for Jews who could be exchanged, as the family of a prisoner of war. Albert witnessed the terrible living conditions of the prisoners and the rapid increase in mortality at the camp starting in January 1945, with the arrival of deportees from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. On April 5, 1945, he and his mother were loaded onto a transport to be taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. After fifteen days, the transport was abandoned by the SS and liberated by Soviet troops near Tröbitz. Albert fell into a six-week coma due to typhus. He and his mother were repatriated to Paris on June 26, 1945. They were reunited with Majer and Albert's brother, Henri. In 1994, Albert founded the Association of Former Deportees of Bergen-Belsen. He published an autobiography in 2005: "I Was Twelve Years Old in Bergen-Belsen" (published by Le Manuscrit). Albert Bigielman died on October 31, 2011, in Paris. This testimony was collected by the Shoah Memorial in 2005. To go further: https://ressources.memorialdelashoah.... ----------------------------------------------------------------- In english Albert Bigielman, deported from France to the Bergen-Belsen camp Albert Bigielman was deported at the age of 12 with his mother Fajga. His father, Majer, had joined the Foreign Legion and was taken prisoner of war in Stettin. For this reason, Albert and his mother were deported on convoy 80B, which left the Drancy camp by May 3, 1944, bound for the Bergen-Belsen camp. At the camp, they were placed in the Jewish exchange sector, as the family of a prisoner of war. Albert witnessed the terrible living conditions of the prisoners and the accelerating mortality rate in the camp from January 1945, with the arrival of deportees from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. On April 5, 1945, he and his mother were loaded onto a convoy for transport to the Theresienstadt camp. After a fortnight, the convoy was abandoned by the SS and liberated by Soviet troops in the vicinity of Tröbitz. Albert falls into a six-week coma from typhus. He is repatriated with his mother to Paris on June 26, 1945. They are reunited with Majer and Albert's brother Henri. In 1994, Albert founded the Amicale des Anciens Déportés de Bergen-Belsen. In 2005, he published an autobiography: “I was twelve years old in Bergen-Belsen” (published by Le Manuscrit). Albert Bigielman died on October 31, 2011, in Paris. This testimony was collected by the Shoah Memorial in 2005. For further information: https://ressources.memorialdelashoah.... ----------------------------------------------------------------- #history #shoah #testimony Follow the Shoah Memorial on social media:   / memorialshoahofficiel     / memorialshoah     / memorialdelashoah     / memorialdelashoah   Thumbnail credits: Background: Barracks and barbed wire at the Bergen-Belsen camp (Lower Saxony, Germany). 1945. © Shoah Memorial