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Strange New World: Bergen-Belsen after liberation

Strange New World: Bergen-Belsen after liberation

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Following our special series, Emergency Exit, this episode of History Lab looks at what happened to those who didn't escape Nazi persecution in Europe in the 1930s and '40s.Historian Nadia Wheatley's Strange New World began with a manilla envelope: a newspaper clipping and a photograph, sent by her stepmother after her father's death, showing him as medical superintendent of a hospital in post-war Germany. What followed was a decade of research into a story Wheatley argues has never been fully told — the year after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, when the concentration camp was burned to the ground but the displaced persons camp that replaced it became home to tens of thousands of survivors who had nowhere else to go.In conversation with writer Linda Jaivin, Wheatley traces the mismanaged relief effort that cost thousands of lives in the weeks after liberation, the fraught decision to staff the camp hospital with German doctors and nurses, and the political organising that pushed the British administration toward recognising Belsen as a Jewish displaced persons camp.The conversation also follows the more hopeful undercurrent of that year: the couples who met and married at Belsen, the roughly two thousand babies born there between 1945 and 1950, and how former camp prisoners refused to be locked in again by their new overseers. Wheatley discusses returning to the site repeatedly since 2014, meeting survivors and "the babies" — some of whom she has since encountered living in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto — and reflects on what it meant to stand, as the daughter of the hospital's superintendent, among people for whom that hospital remains a kind of sacred site. ImagesTo see the images that Nadia Wheatley refers to in her talk, visit this link.VoicesNadia Wheatley is an Australian writer whose work includes picture books, novels, biography and history. In 2014 she was admitted by the University of Sydney to the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), in recognition of her work as a creative writer and historian. Among her many beloved titles are the children's books My Place and Dancing at the Anzac Deli. For adults, she is the author of The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift , a biography (HarperCollins 2002). Strange New World is her latest book (Monash University Publishing, 2026).Linda Jaivin is an internationally published Australian author, translator, essayist, novelist and specialist writer on China. Her most recent book is The Shortest History of Madrid (Black Ink, 2026).CreditsThis episode of History Lab was recorded on Gadigal Land, Sydney, at Gleebooks. For more literary events like this one, see the Gleebooks events page.Edited and mixed by Daniel Wiggins.History Lab is brought to you by the Australian Centre for Public History and UTS Impact Studios. Executive producer is Sarah Gilbert.
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