Eddy Boas

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Apr 24, 2025, 10:45 PM

April 15 is the 80th anniversary when British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. That is the camp where I spent 14 months of my life, as a 4-5 year old. British troops surrounded the camp and negotiated a...

Jul 18, 2024, 12:59 PM

There is so much misery in the world, I feel like telling everyone a Holocaust story which has a lifesaving ending. During the Holocaust there were many non- Jews who were heroes. This is my story about one of those heroes...

May 21, 2021, 12:55 PM

Israel vs. Hamas

HOW would YOU react? A small country (20,770 sqkm) is being attacked by its neighbour. This neighbour, without provocation, suddenly in one salvo launches 130 rockets, indiscriminately aimed in the direction of 2 major cities, hitting without warning occupied apartment...

Apr 8, 2021, 12:23 PM

The Nazis fed their horses better than they fed us Jews

On April 15, 1945, the 11th British Armoured Division walked through the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, located 60 km north east of the city of Hannover in western Germany. On April 11th, the head of the German SS,...

Apr 21, 2020, 10:04 AM

The day I left Bergen-Belsen

One of the trains that left Bergen-Belsen for Theresienstadt in early April. This one was liberated by American forces, on April 14, 1945. (US Army Signal Corps/ Wikimedia Commons)

They were shipping us to Theresianstadt, but when my 9-year-old brother jumped from the train to find food, he discovered the Russian army

Feb 3, 2020, 6:20 AM

A Time Table of Dutch Regrets

Dutch Railways and Dutch Police, as well as Dutch Bureaucrats willingly collaborated with the German Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands (1940-1945), in the betrayal of Dutch Jews. Even after peace returned, in May 1945, the new Dutch Government showed every...

Dec 23, 2018, 5:41 AM

73 years after the Holocaust, the Netherlands should apologize

After 73 years, the Dutch railway Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has at last admitted wrongdoing in their undeniable cooperation with the Nazis in deporting Dutch Jews to transit camp Westerbork and from there to the Dutch-German border. There they handed...

Oct 16, 2018, 4:14 PM

Against all odds: My family survived Bergen-Belsen

I was 3 years old when a Dutch Nazi and a German soldier with guns in hand broke down our front door

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About Me

Eddy Boas is the author of 'I'm Not A Victim -- I Am A Survivor.' He lives in Australia