Al Gibson

Life After Belsen Al Gibson

At the end of World War II Europe overflowed with Displaced People (DPs). The horror camps of the Nazis did not close straight after liberation. The people of the camps had to wait to be resettled and it was Jewish survivors who waited the longest. Simon Bloomberg provides a candid, though often humorous, eye-witness account of what took place in the DP camps after the War, including the one at Bergen-Belsen that he led from 1946 to 1947. This camp only closed in 1951 after its people had finally emigrated to Israel to start a new life.