Exhibition- Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024
In June 1944, a group of 222 Jewish prisoners was exchanged for German Templars from Palestine. The Knight’s Templars had lived there since the 1880s and the remaining prisoners consisted of women and children. Their men had been deported to Australia by the British. Bergen-Belsen was partly an “Austauschlager” (exchange camp) and a list of 1,100 “Austauschjuden” had already been compiled. But later was reduced to 222 people. Most of the prisoners in the original list were women and children and some men over the age of 45.
