“When I think of the war everything is like a dream.
It is as if I had slept.
My memories of the war are such
that I do not want to speak of them,
not to my children and not to myself.”

Bezalel was liberated by the British
from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
He was very ill and taken to a military hospital
where he stayed for a short time.

It was not until the summer of 1945
that he had the chance to go to Sweden.
After a short time at Södervärn School
he was moved to the refugee centre at the Museum.
He thought it was very strange to end up there.
A museum is used to store expensive treasures
– but concentration camp prisoners?

Bezalel remembers the moat around the castle.
It was exciting to watch all the beautiful young women who came from the city to have a look.
Sometimes messages were written and thrown
across to the other side of the moat.

To Bezalel the freedom was fantastic.
The knowledge of being free,
of being able to come and go
as he wanted was enough.
Fear and hunger no longer existed.

Bezalel found a job at a shoe factory in Malmö.
He met Sulamit, who had also suffered during imprisonment and was freed by the White Buses.