Of the 120,000 people who were prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, at least 52,000 died. The victims included all groups that the Nazis declared enemies and excluded from the National Socialist community: Jews, Sinti & Roma, political dissidents, homosexuals, those defamed as antisocial or professional criminals, Jehovah's Witnesses, people deported from occupied countries for forced labor, former prisoners of war and others. The SS was responsible for the deaths of these men, women and children from all European countries. They tried to conceal their crimes by burning the dead or burying them in hastily dug pits. The SS also destroyed the camp registry, which meant that transport lists, death lists and individual prisoner records were irretrievably destroyed.

Since 1990, the Bergen-Belsen Memorial has collected a great deal of information about the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from other sources. Despite intensive research, only names and data on around 11,500 dead have been found to date. These names are published on a separate website as a digital book of the dead. In addition to the names and - where known - cemeteries, the site also contains information on places of death and sources.

Due to the destruction of sources by the perpetrators, it will not be possible to reconstruct the names of all those who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Nevertheless, the book of the dead is an expression of the effort to remember the names of all the dead. It is not yet complete.
(Source: bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/de/geschichte/die-toten-des-konzentrationslagers-bergen-belsen/)

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