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Both of Geddy Lee's (lead singer/bassist of Rush) parents were Holocaust survivors. First imprisoned at Auschwitz, they were separated to Bergen-Belsen and Dachau; they found each other after Allied liberation, married, and emigrated to Canada.

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The word 'robot' was invented by Czech anti-fascist writers. 'Robota' means 'forced labour', & was coined by Josef Čapek. His brother Karel's 1920 sci-fi play 'R.U.R.' tells of android workers rising up against human masters. Josef was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.

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1. Anne was sent with her sister to Bergen-Belsen. Anne died at Bergen-Belsen on March, 1945. She was only 15 years old. It is believed she died of typhoid.

2. Anne Frank died of a typhus epidemic that ravaged Bergen-Belsen rather than by execution.

3. That, upon receiving the surrender of German Field Marshal Erhard Milch in 1945, Brigadier Derek Mills-Roberts broke Milch's own command baton over his head in anger after witnessing the conditions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

4. The parents of Geddy Lee (of Rush) were liberated from Nazi concentration and lived in the officers’ quarters of Bergen-Belsen after it was turned into a displaced-persons camp, and were among 2,000 couples married in the camp in the months after liberation.

5. During the British liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, approximately 14,000 prisoners died after rescue due to their bodies being too malnourished to digest the huge amount of relief food they had been provided by British soldiers.

6. About Bergen-Belsen POW and Concentration Camp and the mass number of people who were murdered there. I learned about the lost records for approximately 70,000 people, as the German SS troops destroyed their records days before the camp was liberated.

7. British Brigadier Mills-Roberts, on accepting the surrender of German Field Marshal Milch at the close of World War II, was so disgusted by what he'd seen in liberating Bergen-Belsen that he cracked the surrendering Marshal's baton over his head.

8. Geddy Lee’s (lead singer and bassist for Rush) parents met in a Nazi work camp, were both sent to Auschwitz. His fater was then sent to Dachau and his mother went to Bergen-Belsen. Both were liberated and eventually reunited.