Born in Bergen-Belsen as Liberation Loomed, A Young Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Mother's Story
Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem, born in the Bergen-Belsen camp in March 1945 as her mother Lola hid the pregnancy, is among the youngest Holocaust survivors. Her birth amid camp chaos near liberation and the family’s afterward years in a displaced persons camp, followed by a life in Israel, are documented by Yad Vashem, highlighting enduring memory of the Holocaust as antisemitism rises.