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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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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Belsen is a village within the German borough of Bergen in the northern part of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. The village, whose...
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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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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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Bergen-Belsen may refer to: Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen (1940–1943), a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1942–1945)...
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Elisabeth Volkenrath (category Belsen trial executions)
transferred to Bergen-Belsen when Auschwitz was closed. From February 1945, she was Oberaufseherin (supervising wardress) at Bergen-Belsen. In April 1945...
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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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Herta Bothe (category People convicted in the Belsen trial)
prisoners from central Poland to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Celle. While en route to Bergen-Belsen, she and the prisoners stayed temporarily...
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Anne Frank (category Dutch people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months...
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members of the women's orchestra were evacuated by cattle car to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where there was neither orchestra nor...
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concentration camp List of subcamps of Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen concentration camp List of subcamps of Bergen-Belsen Buchenwald concentration camp List of subcamps...
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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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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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concentration camps in Nazi Germany liberated by British troops in 1945, Bergen-Belsen. According to the ASCAP, credited songwriters are Sid Vicious, Paul...
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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had three satellite camps. These were at regional armament works. Around 2,000 female concentration camp prisoners were...
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Dirk Bogarde (section Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
Bogarde said he was one of the first Allied officers to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on 20 April 1945, an experience that had...
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Kastner train (section Bergen-Belsen, Germany)
escape. After a journey of several weeks, including a diversion to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, 1,670 surviving passengers reached Switzerland...
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Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen. Male SS members were not permitted to enter the female camps. Irma Grese oversaw the death cells at Bergen-Belsen; mugshot was...
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Nanette Blitz Konig (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
Nanette Konig-Blitz (born 6 April 1929) is a Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivor and former classmate of Anne Frank. She has lived in São Paulo...
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Fritz Klein (category Belsen trial executions)
hanged for his role in atrocities at Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust. Klein was born in Feketehalom...
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for survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which was located on the edge of the training area near the town of Bergen. Under British control...
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Gena Turgel (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
Buchenwald before finally being sent to the Bergen-Belsen camp. She survived the bombing of Poland and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she nursed...
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villages: Becklingen, Belsen, Bergen, Bleckmar, Diesten, Dohnsen, Eversen, Hagen, Hassel, Offen, Sülze and Wardböhmen. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was...
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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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Hilde Lobauer (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp personnel)
prisoner and later a concentration camp guard in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. She was known most as "the SS woman without uniform." Hilde Lobauer...
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noted for his work in Africa, and for photographing mass deaths at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the end of the World War II. Born in Hale...
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Lilly Appelbaum Malnik (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
camp in occupied Poland, and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 by the British Army...
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service. BBC recording from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp BBC recording from 20 April 1945 of Jewish survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp singing...
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2010, p. 2. Beorn 2018, p. 4. Gerlach 2016, p. 15. Gilbert 2015, p. 22. Bergen 2016, pp. 14–17. Weitz 2010, p. 58. Gerlach 2016, pp. 20–21. Gerlach 2016...
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