Synopsis
She was 19 when she arrived at the dreaded death camp of Auschwitz. But fate smiled on Luba Tryszynska, and after two years she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where she was put to work nursing injured German soldiers. Her life would take its most dramatic change when she heard children's voices near her barracks. THE ANGEL OF BERGEN BELSEN tells Luba's inspiring story. Follow her from her internment through the end of the war, and discover how she single-handedly saved 54 children from the Nazi death machine. Incredible interviews with surviving "Diamond children" as they came to be known and Luba herself provide a detailed portrait of a woman who was compelled to action in the face of a seemingly insurmountable evil. It is a story of boundless love and compassion, a testament to the power for good in the human spirit.