Blog #2- Jackie Mednick

Woman on the street
An emaciated female survivor who has just been disinfected lies on a stretcher in Bergen-Belsen. This picture is the evidence of how the jews were treated. This picture fills me with sorrow. It also makes me a little angry to look at. It is so upsetting to me that such a person could be treated like this.

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