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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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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prisoner-of-war camp Bergen-Belsen DP camp, a displaced persons camp set up by British forces in 1945 near the site of the concentration camp Belsen (Bergen)...
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Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. It was in operation from the summer of 1945 until September 1950. For a time, Belsen DP camp was the largest Jewish DP...
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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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were 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...
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began in the DP camps, amongst the survivors themselves. Camp papers like Undzer Shtimme ("Our Voice"), published in Hohne Camp (Bergen-Belsen), and Undzer...
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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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Sh'erit ha-Pletah (category Displaced persons camps in the aftermath of World War II)
Hebrew term for Ashkenazi Holocaust survivors living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps, and the organisations they created to act on their behalf with the Allied...
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Other installations later became POW camps in the war. One eventually turned into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In 1938, the Deutsche Luftwaffe claimed...
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Josef Rosensaft (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
that first served the interests of the refugees in Bergen-Belsen DP camp and then DP camps throughout the entire British sector. Rosensaft was born to...
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of the Hatikvah, when it was sung by survivors of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp. The Holocaust survivors onboard the famed American rescue ship...
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Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
survivors living in the nearby Bergen-Belsen D.P. Camp and appointed Zweigenhaft to be the Rav Hamachshir of Bergen-Belsen. Zweigenhaft was appointed to be...
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after World War II. He was the UNRRA Director of the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after World War II and European Director of the Jewish Relief...
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Josef Rosensaft, was chairman of the Jewish Committee of the Bergen-Belsen DP camp and of the Central Jewish Committee in the British Zone of Germany....
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Until 1946 he was deployed as an ambulanceman for the UNRRA at Bergen-Belsen DP camp. Lange worked as an actor at the theaters of Hildesheim and Bonn and...
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much of north-west Germany. The liberation of the concentration camps such as Bergen Belsen put the strategy of post war Germany into a new direction. This...
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Nazi concentration camps, including Skarżysko-Kamienna, Bergen-Belsen, and Buchenwald, her parents were married in the Föhrenwald DP camp, and then returned...
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Ship Exodus ORT, World. "Music and the Holocaust: Music in the Bergen-Belsen DP-camp". holocaustmusic.ort.org. "In the Jewish Cemetery in Queens". Grand...
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This is a list of London medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation at the end of the Second World War. There...
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women and kapos (prisoner functionaries) from the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps. After World War II, Lüneburg became part of the new state...
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Barker, whose forces participated in the capture of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, made many antisemitic comments in his letters to Katy Antonius...
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ultimate sacrifice for their disagreement with the regime. Bergen-Belsen – concentration camp located near the German village of Bergen, nearby Hannover. Anne...
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Karen Hansen Clement, a German refugee in a Cyprus displaced persons (DP) camp. This attachment and her attraction toward Ben Canaan result in her becoming...
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George Millington Woodwark (category London medical students who assisted at Belsen)
Westminster Hospital medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. George Millington Woodwark was born on 27 April 1923...
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months following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Jewish survivors left the Belsen DP camp and also settled in Hanover. When the community...
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Jacob Avigdor (category Buchenwald concentration camp survivors)
the war (at Mauthausen concentration camp). He had seen the death of a man, and not long after the war, at a DP camp in Italy, he wrote a document for his...
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network found its origins within the newly liberated camp of Bergen-Belsen. Relocating to various DP camps, and then through several French cities, the yeshiva...
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assessing the needs of displaced persons, including a lengthy visit to Bergen-Belsen. Everywhere, he found nothing but devastation and despair. "The human eye...
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than 250,000 languished in displaced persons camps for years after the war ended. Many American-run DP camps had horrific conditions, with inmates living...
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