The Remarkable Klara Belkin: A Holocaust survivor in Saskatchewan (Part 1)

650 CKOM/980 CJME Audio On-Demand · Apr 14, 2025 · 6m

Most of us are familiar with the story of Anne Frank: a young Jewish girl who, along with her family, hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. After two years of hiding, they were betrayed. Anne was eventually sent to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany. While Anne Frank was in one section of the Nazi camp, Klara Belkin was in another. Klara and Anne were alike in many ways. They were both 15 years old when they arrived in Bergen-Belsen, both were born into Jewish families and both had their lives upended by the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet, there was one…