At least 52,000 prisoners died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before it was liberated by British troops in 1945 - including the now world-famous Jewish girl Anne Frank. The documentation center shows photos and other evidence of the horror in an impressive and moving permanent exhibition - in modern and yet appropriately restrained architecture. In the adjacent outdoor area there are mass graves, memorials and a gravestone in memory of Anne Frank and her sister Margot.

Dear cyclists, please take your time for the visit. Let us, who did not have to experience the horror, pause to remember the victims.

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Walter Weiss

June 16, 2017

This place is not a highlight.
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp in the Belsen district of the Bergen municipality in the Celle district. Tens of thousands of people were killed there.
The camp was built from barracks that served as accommodation for workers who had built the military training area in Bergen until 1939. After the war began, the barracks were converted by the Wehrmacht into a camp for Belgian and French, and then also for Soviet, prisoners of war until January 1945.

In 1943, the SS took over part of the camp and used it as a "residence camp" for "exchange Jews", Jewish prisoners who were to be exchanged for German civilian internees abroad. Later, a men's and a women's camp for sick and unfit prisoners from other concentration camps were added. From March 1944, tens of thousands more prisoners from concentration camps near the front were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Until the camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, at least 52,000 prisoners died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp due to the conditions of imprisonment. For thousands, it was a transit station to extermination camps.

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Hajo Meyer

July 31, 2020

Makes you very very thoughtful and sad too

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Location: Lohheide, Celle, Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

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