MUNICH : An Israeli’s Return

On Thursday, Israeli President Ezer Weizman will return to Bergen-Belsen, a German concentration camp he helped liberate as a British soldier 50 years ago, as part of the cycle of commemorations of pivotal end-of-the-war events in Germany this spring. Bergen-Belsen, famous as the camp where the young Dutch diary-writer Anne Frank died, was liberated by the British on April 15, 1945.

Also attending the memorial will be German President Roman Herzog and about 500 camp survivors. On Sunday, 28 Israeli survivors of the concentration camp at Dachau will return to the site for a low-key commemoration of its liberation by U.S. troops on April 29, 1945. Dachau was Nazi Germany’s biggest concentration camp.