num_pages: 340
description: Hetty Werkendam was thirteen years old when she was sent to Belsen, where se lived in the infamous "Children's House," overlooking an open mass grave. There she witnessed at first hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Her account of life in the Children's House provides a painfully poignant, but strangely uplifting Holocaust story.Hetty Verolme lives in Australia.
language: German
title: Wir Kinder von Bergen Belsen
titlecomplete: Wir Kinder von Bergen Belsen
genres: Memoir, History, War, Biography, Historical, World War II, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Holocaust, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 680
places: Bergen-Belsen
publisher: Beltz