In Bergen-Belsen, I was dying. I desperately needed water. I said to G-d, please help me live.
This was springtime, I figured it was around Passover. I said to G-d, if I survive, I promise I will always remember this miracle and will make Passover the most special holiday for me, and so I do till today.
I left my barracks and was looking for any kind of water. I looked up and noticed that there were no Germans in the guard towers. I started to tell people that the Germans were gone. Then the British soldiers came to liberate us. We ran to the fence to greet the British troops.
I was liberated by British soldiers on April 15, 1945 at Bergen-Belsen, I was then transferred to the American zone. Later, my sister Rella Wizenberg found my name on a list and we were reunited.
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