Biography

About Israel Buitekant

Israel Buitekant was interned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Shortly before liberation a train carrying 2,000 prisoners, mainly Jewish, left for Theresienstadt. The train spent 14 days travelling through Germany, and many passengers died on the journey. Finally, it came to a halt near the small village of Tröbitz, where Allied troops liberated the surviving passengers. Israel Buitekant did not survive the journey. He was buried in the nearby town of Falkenberg, together with other victims.
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