What Do Holocaust Survivors Feel Today Toward Their Perpetrators?
Shalom Robinson, M.D., and Sara Metzer, M.S.W. Josef Josef, born in Yugoslavia in 1937, describes his memories from the age of 7 in Bergen Belsen, where he was transferred with his mother after being in another concentration camp in Austria. He was imprisoned for several months in Bergen Belsen until its liberation in April 1945. He tells: “It was impossible to go alone to the toilet in Bergen Belsen. The toilets were outside the barracks and the corpses were scattered around.” He would go to the toilets with his mother, and it was very frightening. He worked in Bergen Belsen every day. He remembers the trucks that carried bodies of the dead camp prisoners, and wonders today how he did not shout or cry at these scenes. He also remembers the previous camp in Austria, where they were incarcerated for only a few days. He remembers the cruel Ukrainian guards; when he wanted to go to the toilets a Ukrainian guard with a whip tried to beat him and he fled. Until recent years he thought that
