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Article: Concentration camp survivor talks to students.
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- Sussex Express Series (Lewes, England)
- Article date:
- January 22, 2008
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THE horrors of the Holocaust were recounted to pupils by a Jewish concentration camp survivor.
Rudi Oppenheimer told the harrowing story of his ordeal in Belsen, the concentration camp where an estimated 50,000 died from 1943-45.
Mr Oppenheimer, who is now in his 70s, was born in Germany but his family fled to Holland to try to escape the Nazis.
The whole family, including his parents and two siblings, were later taken to Belsen .
He spoke ...