Bergen-Belsen survivor learns of sisters' fate 64 years on

"When we arrived at Auschwitz I was immediately separated from my mother and two sisters," he said yesterday, from his home near Leeds."Five minutes later I was separated from my father. I never saw any of them again." After accessing the files at Bad Arolsen in central Germany however, Mr Black, a Czech Jew deported to the Nazi's most notorious camp in May 1944, discovered that his sisters like him had been selected not for death but for slave labour teams.

"After 64 years believing they had perished in the gas chambers with my mother the documents came as such a shock," he said.