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ON 15 APRIL 1945, British and Canadian troops entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in western Germany. Padre Father M.G. Morrison (L) and Rev Stanislaus Kadizokla*, conduct a service over Mass Grave number 2 at Belsen before it is filled in. 25 April 1945
On 30 April 1943, approximately 500 people arrived at Bergen-Belsen on a transport from Buchenwald. These prisoners were held in a section of Bergen-Belsen called the Prisoner Camp. Over the following two months, these prisoners were forced to convert the former prisoner of war camp into a concentration camp.
Apr 23, 2021 · At Bergen-Belsen, the camp population grew to 90,000 with no additional food or resources. Most died from starvation and disease and the mortality rate amongst those suffering from typhus was over 60 per cent. THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, APRIL 1945 (BU 3927) The British Army approaches Belsen Concentration Camp.
On 15 April 1945, while attached to the 11th Armoured Division, Hughes became the first Allied Medical Officer to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Hughes took control of the camp and the 4,600 German and Hungarian soldiers placed at his command by the German authorities.
Apr 12, 2013 · Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com. A small boy strolls down a road lined with dead bodies near the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945. George Rodger—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ...
Bergen-Belsen DP camp was established in July 1945 in a former German army camp near the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. After liberating the concentration camp on April 15, l945, the British burned the camp barracks as a health precaution.
It contains over 8,000 publications primarily on the history of Bergen-Belsen and the topics of Nazi Germany, the concentration camp system and the Holocaust. The books cannot be borrowed, but they can be used in the library's reading room.
