Bergen-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, [1] in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp.

British 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.

2013年4月12日 · More than a million people were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau alone; at Belsen, by most estimates, fewer than 100,000 died—from starvation and disease (typhus, for example), as well as outright ...

2023年8月22日 · British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. Soon after liberation, Bergen-Belsen gained international notoriety as a site of Nazi mass murder. 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.

More than a hundred huts measuring 90 by 30 metres and built to hold at most 50 to 80 people now housed an average of 500 sick, dying, or dead people; in one hut 400 of the occupants were dead. The stench and the pathetic cries for help were unbearable.

As the British Army advanced into the heart of Nazi Germany in the spring of 1945, its soldiers were confronted with the full horrors of the Holocaust at the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

2024年5月26日 · Her death at Bergen-Belsen, just weeks before liberation, has come to symbolize the senseless tragedy of the Holocaust and the loss of countless innocent lives. Today, the site of the former concentration camp serves as a memorial and educational center, dedicated to honoring the victims and preserving the memory of the atrocities committed there.

At least 38,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between April 1943, when the camp was established, and the 15th of April 1945, the day the camp was liberated. Despite the extensive rescue and relief efforts of the British Army, 14,000 more children, women and men died in the first weeks after liberation as a result of ...

2021年9月3日 · Most people have some knowledge of the Holocaust. But, how much do you know about the small concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen? For the soldiers engaged with World War Two, you’d expect their contact with the dead to an everyday experience. Yet, when the British army liberated the camp of Bergen-Belsen in 1945, it was a ghastly sight.

At least 38,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between April 1943, when the camp was established, and the 15th of April 1945, the day the camp was liberated. Despite the extensive rescue and relief efforts of the British Army, 14,000 more children, women and men died in the first weeks after liberation as a result of ...