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October 23,1997

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Hadassah Rosensaft, Bergen-Belsen doctor

NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Hadassah Rosensaft, 85, a Holocaust survivor who cared for 150 Jewish orphans at the BergenBelsen concentration camp and was later a spokesperson for survivors, has died. Born Hadassah Bimko in Sosnowiec, Poland, in 1912, Rosensaft studied medicine at the University of Nancy in France and earned a doctorate as a dental surgeon in 1935.

Another life cut tragically short by the Nazis

She practiced dentistry in Sosnowiec until August 1943, when she and her family were deported to Auschwitz, where her parents, first husband, Josef Preserowicz, and five-year-old son Benjamin were exterminated. She was assigned to the infirmary, where she saved hundreds of Jewish women. In November 1944, she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen in Germany, where she treated Jewish orphans infected with typhoid fever and other diseases that swept the camps.

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Mytelka, 87, of Springfield died Sept. 28. Born in Connecticut, he lived in Hadassah Rosensaft - Wikipedia VANI