At first glance, it is an unremarkable scene: people ranging from infants to the elderly are lingering on a sunny day by a stopped train. Look closer though, and all is not well. Their clothes are torn, they scratch at lice and they look at the camera with haunted stares.
The images are from three minutes of never-before-seen footage filmed in the aftermath of an eleventh-hour liberation during the Holocaust. The “Miracle at Farsleben” saved the lives of 2,500 Jews, and now a clip of that moment has been unearthed by an American high school teacher.
The intervention occurred on April 13, 1945, when a train stopped while transporting Jewish prisoners between the concentration camps of Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt. The SS officers in charge were
