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Israeli president retraces father's footsteps at Nazi camp
Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp on Tuesday, retracing the footsteps of his father who helped liberate the site as a British army officer in 1945.
Recounting Chaim Herzog's first moments at the camp -- Isaac's father and former Israeli president -- the leader said he "stood on a wooden box, shouting in Yiddish before hundreds of skeletons".
"'Jews! There are still living Jews!" Herzog recalled his father saying.
The camp is one of the most notorious of World War II, where over 50,000 people died, including the diarist Anne Frank.
In 1945, it was covered with barracks that the British army quickly burned down to stop diseases from spreading.
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