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Death of Basja Bergman
Basja Bergman suffocated in a bunker during the first liquidation.
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... The second funeral, which took place either a day
before or a day later, was for a small girl, four-year-old
Basja Bergman, the only daughter of the Latin teacher,
Dr. Michel Bergman, and his wife, Nusja. This small
angel was smothered to death in our bunker on the first
day of the liquidation when she awakened crying and
we heard Nazi soldiers searching the house above.
Returning to my house at night from the factory, I bur-
ied the little girl in the garden, a few feet from the win-
dow, through which her mother passed me her rigid
corpse covered in a white sheet. Mrs. Bergman, unable
to accept the reality of her daughter’s death, asked:
‘‘Maybe she is still alive?” ...Connected nodes