Bergen-Belsen (pronounced [ˈbɛʁɡn̩ˌbɛlsn̩]), or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of...
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Auschwitz concentration camp List of subcamps of Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen concentration camp List of subcamps of Bergen-Belsen Buchenwald concentration camp List...
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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, he was...
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Irma Grese (redirect from Bitch of belsen)
1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was a volunteer...
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Fritz Klein (category Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel)
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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Juana Bormann (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
1893 – 13 December 1945) was a German prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938, and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin, Lower Saxony...
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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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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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9 mi) southwest of Bergen, has 331 inhabitants (as at: 31 December 2000). The Belsen concentration camp was named after it. Today Belsen is dominated by...
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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 work squads...
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Dirk Bogarde (section Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
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 the most...
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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 end of...
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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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Lilly Appelbaum Malnik (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
camp in Belgium, Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland, and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen...
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liberation camp 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...
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Herta Bothe (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Celle. While en route to Bergen-Belsen, she and the prisoners stayed temporarily at Auschwitz concentration camp...
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Gena Turgel (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
finally being sent to the Bergen-Belsen camp. She survived the bombing of Poland and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she nursed a dying Anne...
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Hannah Pick-Goslar (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
Holocaust, they saw each other again whilst imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Goslar and her young sister were the only family members who...
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Anne Frank (category Dutch people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
to concentration camps. On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where...
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Kastner train (section Bergen-Belsen, Germany)
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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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, Cheshire...
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Gilroy, a former soldier who participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, sitting on a bench in his old age. Gilroy was a friend of...
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Margot Frank (category Dutch people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
her own, but no trace of it has ever been found. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from a typhus outbreak. Margot Betti Frank, named after her...
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Georges Valois (category French people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
He was a member of the French Resistance and died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Born in a working-class and peasant family in Paris, Georges...
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Elisabeth Volkenrath (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
Knoch, Habbo, ed. (2010). Bergen-Belsen: Wehrmacht POW Camp 1940–1945, Concentration Camp 1943–1945, Displaced Persons Camp 1945–1950. Catalogue of the...
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Becklingen, Belsen, Bergen, Bleckmar, Diesten, Dohnsen, Eversen, Hagen, Hassel, Offen, Sülze and Wardböhmen. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was located...
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
getting evacuated. Anita was taken on a train with 3,000 others to Bergen-Belsen and survived for six months with almost nothing to eat. After the liberation...
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Herta Ehlert (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
subcamp in Rajsko, Poland, before she was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she became deputy wardress under Oberaufseherinnen Elisabeth...
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Ella Blumenthal (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten (ed.). Bergen-Belsen Wehrmacht POW Camp, 1940 - 1945, Concentration camp, 1943 - 1945, Displaced persons camp, 1945 - 1950 ; catalogue...
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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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