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Bookmark or Share- The Liberation Of Bergen-Belsen 15 April 1945 - The Holocaust | IWMBritish forces liberated Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. Thousands of bodies lay unburied around the camp and some 60,000 starving and mortally ill people were packed together without food, water or basic sanitation. Many were suffering from typhus, dysentery and starvation. Bergen-Belsen was first established in 1940 as a prisoner of war camp.
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - WikipediaBergen-Belsen (pronounced [ˈbɛʁɡn̩ˌbɛlsn̩]), or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp.
- What was Bergen-Belsen? :: About HolocaustBergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 65 kilometers from the city of Hanover. It was originally established in 1943 as a camp for privileged and other special inmates, including prisoners from neutral countries or whom the German authorities wanted to exchange for German prisoners in Allied hands.
- Bergen-Belsen | Holocaust EncyclopediaSoon after liberation, Bergen-Belsen gained international notoriety as a site of Nazi mass murder. More information about this image. Approximately 50,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen camp complex. Among them was Anne Frank, the most well known child diarist of the Holocaust era.
- Case Study: Bergen-Belsen - The Holocaust ExplainedBergen-Belsen was initially established in May 1940 as a prisoner of war camp, named Stalag 311. It was situated in north Germany. In spring 1943, Himmler ordered the creation of a camp to hold Jewish prisoners who might be used in exchange schemes with the Allies.
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