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Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

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Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Opening of the Camp

  • Built in 1940, originally built as POW camp 
  • Opened as Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp April 1943

Location

  • It is near the town of Bergen-Belsen
  • It's in Saxony, which is in northern Germany

Number of prisoners

  • 4,000 Jewish prisoners (mostly Dutch)
  • 1,600 (Hungarian jews) 
  • 15,000 (Polish Men and Women)

Number of Deaths

  • 50,000+ deaths
  • 6,851 death certificates were given
  • Death certificates were given until 1983
  • Mostly sick and elderly were killed

Method of Death

  • Many died on the death march to Bergen-Belsen
  • Starvation
  • Over worked
  • Medical experiments
  • Many died of diseases (up to 35,000 people)

Body Disposal

  • Were buried in mass graves
  • Also would throw bodies into fires
  • They removed flesh and organs

Type of work

  • Saved shoe leather (shoe commando)
  • Non-Jewish woman who were sent here, were sent to a German factory
  • 500 people were used in contruction jobs at a time

Leaders

  • Josef Kramer
  • Josef Rosensaft
  • Irma Grese (22 year old female)
  • 45 of the staff were tried
  • 14 were found unguilty

After Liberation

  • Currently there is a grave yard here
  • The British troops burned the camp to prevent disease

Interesting Facts

  • 1944 a woman's support center was added
  • Anne Frank died here
  • First major camp to liberate