The Mittens

A pair of colourful knitted wool mittens in the permanent exhibition of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial commemorate the story of Yvonne Koch, who was deported from Slovakia at the age of 10 in the autumn of 1944 and was liberated in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. Yvonne Koch recounts her own life story, Thomas Rahe explains the historical background, and Diana Gring discusses the significance of the mittens as an exhibit.