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Bergen-Belsen est, depuis 1945, un lieu du souvenir de portée internationale. Le Mémorial comprend aujourd’hui la surface entière occupée par l’ancien camp. Sur le terrain, des monuments commémoratifs de l’après-guerre rappellent que plus de 52 000 personnes ont péri dans le camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen.
Special Exhibition Bergen-Belsen Memorial Presents New Travelling Exhibition "A Place Of Crime: Bergen-Belsen! from 16 June until 15 December 2024. Reading Recommendation Menachem Rosensaft: Meditating on Bergen-Belsen: Passover After Oct. 7.
Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen.Built in 1940, it was a prisoner-of-war camp for French and Belgium prisoners.In 1941, it was renamed Stalag 311 and housed about 20,000 Russian prisoners.The POW portion of the camp remained in operation until January 1945. The camp changed its name to Bergen-Belsen and ...
Hace 1 día · 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.
Series: Bergen-Belsen. Browse a series of articles about the establishment of the Bergen-Belsen camp as a camp for prisoners of war, key dates in its existence as a concentration camp in the Nazi camp system, the liberation of the camp, and the establishment of a displaced persons camp near the site of the former concentration camp.
The Bergen-Belsen Memorial is located on the southern Luneburg Heath, about 25 kilometres from the town of Celle, a former ducal seat. Founded in 1952, the Bergen-BelsenMemorial is the oldest national memorial in Germany, and it receives around 250,000 visitors a year.
W KZ Bergen-Belsen zginęło ok. 50 000 więźniów obozu koncentracyjnego i ok. 20 000 jeńców wojennych – wśród nich przede wszystkim sowieckich, francuskich i belgijskich. Żołnierze, którzy wyzwalali obóz, znaleźli tysiące zwłok, których nie zdążono poddać kremacji. W obozie tym zmarła Anne Frank .
