Bella Tovey

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Bella Tovey (born Bella Jakubowicz, September 18, 1926 – July 14, 2019)[1] was a Holocaust survivor who told her survival story in Europe, the United States, and Canada.

Tovey was the oldest child of four, born in Sosnowiec, Poland. Her father owned a knitting factory.

Experience in WWII

In 1943, after four years of German occupation in Poland, Tovey was sent to northern Germany, to a labor camp. She was moved to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in December 1944.[2] In April 1945, the camp was liberated, at which point she weighed 70 pounds and had lice.[1]

Life after WWII

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