a journey back to belsen, ajourney back to belsen, 73 a journey back to belsen, 73 years on.ight is coming up on bbc two. here's emily. how the scandinavian countries cut their immigration model right. nigel farage referred to one swedish city as the rape capital of europe, we asked whether liberal policies have led to a rise in crime. here on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. well, want to support stay with me, the headlines tonight. after all the talk today, scope and west ham back ina talk today, scope and west ham back in a battle for premier league survival. city celebrates to rewrite the record books and feeling the heat is gerald donaldson goes all mcenroe in monte carlo. good evening, well, long after manchester city paid the premier title yesterday more on in a moment. a big game at the other end of the table. story of the two substitutes the night as he finished one all. this perhaps felt like a trip to four on this perhaps felt like a trip to fourona this perhaps felt like a trip to four on a monday night. west ham appeared to be relishing the prospect

hetty has come back to belsen.here when british troops marched through the gates exactly 73 years ago. 52,000 people died here. if you gave up hope that you wouldn't live, that the future was gone, you would be dead in two days. hetty was 13 years old when she and her two brothers were deported from holland to belsen along with their parents. as the camp was finally liberated, she found the strength to tell her story to the bbc. so, hetty, this is extraordinary, listen to this. hetty verolme... the tape is still in the archive — hetty‘s own voice from a lifetime ago. she's speaking in german of suffering and despair, of how her father narrowly escaped death. his heart was pounding, and he couldn't breathe. they were strangling him with his own scarf. 0ne second more and it would have been finished. hetty still remembers it all, the lives lost. but for her, this is a story of survival, and here she is in the newsreel footage of a liberated belsen. that's me. that's you right there? yes, and my brother max. that's am

hetty, has come back to belsen.of death and decay, of corruption and filth. hetty was here when british troops marched through the gates exactly 73 years ago. 52,000 people died here. if you gave up hope that you wouldn't live, that the future was gone, you would be dead in two days. hetty was 13 years old when she and her two brothers were deported from holland to belsen, along with their parents. as the camp was finally liberated, she found the strength to tell her story to the bbc. hetty, this is extraordinary, listen to this. hetty verolme... the tape is still in the archive. hetty‘s own voice from a lifetime ago. she's speaking in german, a story of suffering and despair and hetty still remembers her father's death. but hers is a story of survival and here she is in the film footage of a liberated belsen. that's me. that's you right there? yes. that is amazing, look at your smile, hetty. if you could say something now to that girl, what would you like her to know? if my parents were dead. you'd want her to know

long have you been in this camp, bergen-belsen? 14 months. did your pa rents bergen-belsen? was interviewed. i was happy to tell him the story. and i wanted to tell him the story. and i wanted to know where my parents work, but they didn't know. can you read what it says here? here, 2500. many children died in the war, in the second world war. i hope they rest in peace. we were very lucky. my father and mother and my two brothers and i came back from three different concentration camps. i am sometimes surprised that young people, they don't know what the holocaust is. and you have to explain it to them. when i am not there any more, i hope that somebody will, like you. they will remind the world that it did happen. it did happen. it doesn't matter if things are bad, and a very dark, you must believe that tomorrow will be a better day. that was hetty verolme, giving us her story of how she survived bergen—belsen, liberated at the age of 15. that's it from me for now. don't forget you can get more details about all the stories we are colour and on the bbc news website, and you

as the eyes and was supposed to be one of the passengers by chance she remained at the bergen belsen d.p. camp where she met the love of her life. for esther. love was the miracle that made them believe in the future again together in israel. they all the time he asked me to marry him shortly afterwards we married in bergen belsen exactly one day before the u.n. voted on the partition of palestine in november forty seven. and. now. argentina. and you know i mean and. i'm sparing no. yeah. you know. i'm. in now it's very. yeah. yeah it was hard you know i'm sorry the vote took three minutes and it changed the world. community for probably. want to stop but by thirty people i don't think. you know i think. the dream of many jews had come true and they would receive part of palestine this was where the state would come into the jubilation in tel aviv and not only that it had to hold up quite are you all nice we danced the hora young and old everyone ran to the main square bergen belsen it's impossible to describe. them and it was a strange time we were all still in mourning for the ones

into the liberated bergen belsen concentration camp the british set up a displaced persons camp a d.p. camp for those left homeless. it was a new start for asteroids and. the sixteen year old from poland was the only one on her family to survive on for it's . now she was slowly relearning what it meant to live without fear. today she uses the dreadful experiences of her youth and her art. to understand the history of israel we also have to listen to people like esther eyes on their memories the longing for a jewish home the hope for the future. and it see it out that you only cause i was young and had enough strength to fight for my life and i mean i knew that i told myself i'm the last of my family the only survivor they. i thought that it was my job to continue but i had no choice it was peer survival instinct. there was no other way i had to go on living. but when. estan in europe would never be her home again. she could only start over. in the jewish country. but the waiting list for palestine was a long. three hundred thousand jews in germany demanded to be allowed to travel to p

really become a global effort way to al sharpton system for the comcast is occurring on the work of belsen mandela. but it wasn't just the airwaves of morning joe were comcast was patting itself on the back for its great day of charity according to splinter news dot com and b.c. affiliates across the nation pitched in and d.c. beriah ran a p.r. sounding segment that was a lot like all the other one sort of n.b.c. in fort worth texas n.b.c. ten in philadelphia n.b.c. four in los angeles n.b.c. five in chicago and n.b.c. connecticut just to name a few. i would very sinclair broadcasting them now let's actually practice some humility and start watching honks. what. the. real thing would be. as you get to the bottom. like you that i got. this. week except. the one parts i know so well and i'm topical oh. wow that is pretty incredible like i read. isn't the real point of charity to help people and not kind of pack yourself pat yourself on the back and gloat about it to the world are you some kind of communist . you best go why don't we just help people for the sake of helping people that's not

him in the street and they tell them i'm a holocaust survivor i was in auschwitz i was in bergen belsen and and when i see you i think my german is different when i see young germans like you i think it's a different country now. and it's it's very special to us you know it's my personal way of life means more to them than all the diplomatic efforts made during the last fifty years and something far more for them but what i do is so personal that they can accept it and strike. they separate much more than everything that germany gave from the political side it's something that comes from the heart and it reached the heart and then people really told me this and it's really exciting. to look at my. father. my maternal grandfather was the only member of his family to survive the holocaust of that he grew up in the warsaw ghetto because when he was eight or nine he buried his mother and she died of starvation. and his sister and his grandmother were the only ones left. he had to take care of them and he smuggled food this. one day he came home and discovered all the jews in the street had

and she was filmed by the bbc days after she was freed from belsen — today she returns on the anniversaryf the liberation of the camp. coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news: what now for manchester city? the title is finally theirs, but there are still records to be broken and big plans for next season. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the home secretary has apologised for what she's called the wrong and appalling treatment of some windrush generation immigrants. some of those who arrived here from the caribbean with their parents from 1948 onwards are now losing theirjobs, losing their benefits and face deportation as part of a government review of their immigration status — that's despite having lived here most of their lives. in a dramatic u—turn, amber rudd has announced a new taskforce with what she calls "a completely new approach". she has also admitted she doesn't know if anyone has already been deported in error. our community affairs correspondent adina campbell reports. is