Bergen-Belsen


Localization of the camp of Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen , sometimes called Belsen , was a Concentration camp Nazi located in Lower Saxony, in the south-west of the town of Bergen close to That.

Initially camp of internment of prisoners of war (1940), it is transformed into concentration camp in 1942, in particular accommodating Juif S, Tzigane S and homosexual. The prisoners were frequently tortured there and number of them died of hunger.

The camp of Bergen-Belsen is also a " camp of repos" for the prisoners of the other camps unable to work, exhausted or too old.

The conditions worsened with the arrival of many prisoners transferred from Eastern camps before the release of the latter by the forces Soviet S.

The camp was released by the British forces the April 15th 1945, after which the places were shaven because of their infection by the Typhus.

Approximately 70.000 people found there the death, among which Anne Frank, died the March 15th 1945 following the Typhus, and two former French deputies: Claude Jordery, dead on February 9th of this year, and Augustin Malroux, on April 10th.

Died with the Bergen-Belsen Camp

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Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen camp

Note: 125.000 people off-set with the camp

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Commanders Nazis and personnel of the camp

  • Adolf Haas (1943/44) S
  • Joseph Kramer of 1944 to 1945 S
  • Dr. Fritz Klein (Doctor S of the camp)
  • Dr. Siegfried Seidl (Doctor S of the camp)
  • Irma Grese guardian of the camp
  • Johanna Bormann
  • Elisabeth Volkenrath

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See too

  • Liste of the concentration camps Nazis
  • George Rodger photographed the Bergen-Belsen camp.

External bonds

  • (pl) | People of the camp Bergen-Belsen

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