Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen - Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany
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KZ Bergen-Belsen was a german concentration camp at Lüneburger Heide.
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Location: Niedersachsen, Germany
Date Posted: 08/18/2009
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Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was unique among Nazi concentration camp as the only camp to "segregate Jews who had important connections abroad".
Established in 1943 on the instructions of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The camp is better known as the concentration camp it became as conditions deteriorated. It was located in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.
Between 1943 and the end of WWII, an estimated 50,000 Russian Prisoners of War and a further 50,000 inmates died there, up to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945.
The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 by the British 11th Armoured Division. 60,000 prisoners were found inside, most of them seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lay around the camp unburied.
At Bergen-Belsen Anne Frank's grave is found. Anne Frank became world famous for her diary from the camp. The diary was given to her on her 13th birthday and chronicles her life in the camp from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944 when she died of typhus.
Link to Wikipedia Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Link to Wikipedia Anne Frank.
Link to Wikipedia The Diary of a Young Girl.