Bergen-Belsen (pronounced [ˈbɛʁɡn̩ˌbɛlsn̩]), or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the...
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functionaries) from the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps. Josef Kramer had been camp commandant at Bergen-Belsen and before that at Auschwitz...
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Felice Schragenheim (category German people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
Schragenheim, were taken on a death march to KZ Groß-Rosen, maybe later to a death march to KZ Bergen-Belsen. The date and place of her death are unknown...
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Irma Grese (redirect from Bitch of belsen)
Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was a volunteer member of the SS. Grese was convicted of crimes...
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Josef Kramer (redirect from Joseph Kramer (camp Commandant Bergen-Belsen))
1944) and of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 April 1945). Dubbed The Beast of Belsen by camp inmates,...
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Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp was a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II, in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest...
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Renate Lasker-Harpprecht (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
She survived the Holocaust, having been imprisoned at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Lasker-Harpprecht was arrested on 5 June 1943 along with her sister...
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1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9, S. 381, 1944 im KZ Groß-Rosen. Die Angabe „Braunschweig Zuchthaus Wolfenbüttel“ ist irreführend...
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Another 3,000 who were very ill or dying were sent to Lublin-Majdanek and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Few of them survived. At the end of 1943, the Dora...
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Franz Hössler (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp personnel)
Schutzhaftlagerführer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during World War II. Captured by the Allies at the...
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his prison kitchen. When orders came to transport all prisoners to KZ-Bergen-Belsen on January 18, 1945 they organized the escape of the five girls. Two...
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Twenty-eight Aufseherinnen served in Vught, some at Buchenwald, 60 in Bergen-Belsen, one at Dachau overseeing the brothel, more than 30 in Mauthausen (January...
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Nazi era. Vielleicht war das alles erst der Anfang. Tagebuch aus dem KZ Bergen-Belsen 1944-1945 mit Hanna Levy-Hass; Rotbuch Verlag 1979 Im Scheunenviertel...
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Anneliese Kohlmann (category People convicted in the Belsen trial)
established by the SS in Hamburg, Germany; and at Bergen-Belsen. She was tried for war crimes at the Belsen Trial in Lüneburg in 1946. Kohlmann was born in...
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Bruno Brodniewicz (category German people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
elder), carrying prisoner tag number 1. He died in April 15–16, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As a convicted criminal, Brodniewicz was transferred...
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their skeletons 100.414 1 April 1933 Franz Hoessler K-Z Auschwitz; KZ Bergen Belsen 41.940 1931 1.374.713 Wilhelm Gottlieb Hohmann Born 07 I 1907 Remscheid...
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World War. On 8 April 1945 over 3,000 internees being transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were killed in an Allied air raid and subsequent...
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– among them also these two Jewish girls - should be moved to the KZ Bergen-Belsen. Maria Stocker hosted Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki and Miriam Fuks, through...
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Flossenbürg concentration camp (redirect from KZ Flossenbürg)
prisoners, commandant Max Koegel ordered hundreds of sick prisoners sent to Bergen-Belsen in April. In order to cope with the disorder, he founded a camp police...
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Franz Stofel (category Belsen trial executions)
Wagner: Produktion des Todes: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora, Göttingen 2001, p. 673 (in German) Aussage George Kraft im Bergen-Belsen-Prozess vom 11. Oktober 1945...
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Zena Werb (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
signaling. Zena Werb was born in Germany in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (KZ Bergen-Belsen), a few weeks before the camp was liberated. Both...
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Together with his father, Moshe was relocated first to KZ Echterdingen [de], and then to Bergen-Belsen, where they both died in January 1945. Flinker began...
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Nazi concentration camp commandant (redirect from KZ-Kommandant)
The commandant (German: KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp. He held the...
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Gizela Munková 23 October 1900 Lučenec, Slovakia March-April 1945 KZ Bergen-Belsen, Celle, Germany Archdiocese of Bratislava Couples killed in odium fidei...
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2020. "Bergen-Belsen: Gedenkstättenleiter wird bedroht". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2020. "Nachgefragt – Provokationen in der KZ-Gedenkstätte...
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concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen. Male SS members were not permitted to enter the female camps. Irma...
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Auschwitz concentration camp (redirect from KZ Auschwitz)
open-topped freight trains, to concentration camps in Germany and Austria: Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Dora-Mittelbau...
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The Holocaust in Estonia (section KZ-Stammlager)
through a series of concentration camps in Estonia, Poland and Germany to Bergen-Belsen, where they were liberated. Camp commandant Laak used the women as sex...
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Neuengamme concentration camp (redirect from KZ Neuengamme)
emptied later that month on death marches to the reception camps of Bergen-Belsen and Osnabrück, and, on 8 April, an air raid on a prisoner train transport...
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