Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. About 120,000 people were held in the concentration camp. At least 52,000 people died in the concentration camp or soon after because of how they were treated there. There was also a prisoner of war camp at Bergen-Belsen where at least 19,700 more people died.

Liberation
The camp was liberated on 15 April 1945 by British soldiers. There were around 55,000 people in the concentration camp. They also found more than 13,000 unburied dead bodies.

The scenes were horrific. They were described by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby, who was with the British soldiers:

Notable inmates
 Anne Frank 
 Margot Frank

Photo gallery

Related pages
 Genocide
 World War II
 Kristallnacht
 Nazi Germany
 The Holocaust
 Antisemitism in Europe
 Jedwabne pogrom (1941)
 Nazi concentration camps

Other websites
Investigating Bergen-Belsen | Imperial War Museums on iwm.org.uk

References

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