“I can still remember that sinking feeling of having nowhere to go. Perhaps it would help me in my later dealings with Displaced Persons as I had a small inkling of what they were going through." - Simon Bloomberg

“The Nazis were sadistically meticulous in keeping records of their foreign workers even to the extent of tattooing numbers on those they eventually exterminated.” - Simon Bloomberg

“They had come from Auschwitz and were going to Belsen. The group was not related, just camp brothers and sisters, banded together in a search for relatives who may have escaped extermination.” - Simon Bloomberg

“As if to establish their bona fides they showed me the numbers tattooed on their arms, prefixed by ‘A’ for Auschwitz, the sadistic method of registration only Nazi devils could devise.” - Simon Bloomberg  

“It was the Liberation of Belsen by British Troops that revealed the full horror of Hitler’s extermination plans and shocked the conscience of the world.” - Simon Bloomberg

“My first sight of Belsen was in April 1946. All that remained of the hellish place was derelict huts, stone structures that were part of the incinerators, still displaying human bones and mass graves.” - Simon Bloomberg

“The only country that accepted refugees without reservation was Israel. She would take the sick, the lame and the blind, every Jew who wished to come and give them food and shelter, and let them live among their own people.” - Simon Bloomberg

“One could not help admiring the virility of people that had survived the Holocaust that had just destroyed six million of their kinsmen.” - Simon Bloomberg

“They were being marched to Belsen which to them was a veritable death knell. They had heard about Belsen and knew this meant journey’s end. The blow was even more heartbreaking because the Allies were getting nearer.” - Simon Bloomberg

“My time with the Jewish Relief Unit was the last phase in the struggle to liberate thousands of Jews. The successful conclusion of this task is a tribute to the courage of those who brought it about and those in the camps who never gave up." - Simon Bloomberg