I saw people running - running towards the British soldiers

“The first thing that hits you is the smell and the smog. The people there were like skeletons who would just shuffle along until they fell and died. When they died, there was nobody to clear them up – the bodies just lay there.”

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Yesterday the silence was deafening in Bergen-Belsen as Mala spoke about her experiences.

Hundreds of people walked by the mass graves quietly as a calmness filled the open expanse that was once the scene of some of the human race’s worst atrocities.

Crowds gathered at the symbolic graves of sisters Anne and Margot Frank, who perished aged 16 and 19 in Bergen-Belsen, two of the most famous victims of the Holocaust.

But more prominent were the thousands of nameless victims. As many as 50,000 people died in captivity during the Second World War but only 10,000 have been identified in the years since.