BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP - This wretched festering body and unhinged mind is all that is left of Margit Schwartz, thirty- one years old, born of Jewish parents in Budapest. That she is still alive is both incredible and unfortunate. She is almost completely made and one of the few things that makes any impression upon her mind is the photograph of herself and this is obviously her choicest possession. When we produced a camera before her, she did a most incredible thing. Although she had been unable to move and has to be fed and even turned in her bed by the nursing sister, Margit Schwartz no
BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP - This wretched festering body and unhinged mind is all that is left of Margit Schwartz, thirty- one years old, born of Jewish parents in Budapest. That she is still alive is both incredible and unfortunate. She is almost completely made and one of the few things that makes any impression upon her mind is the photograph of herself and this is obviously her choicest possession. When we produced a camera before her, she did a most incredible thing. Although she had been unable to move and has to be fed and even turned in her bed by the nursing sister, Margit Schwartz not only climbed out of bed unaided, but managed to stand in a position approximating that taken formerly in the old photograph, while the revolted cameraman took two stills. , British Army, 21st Army Group
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