what do you know about Bergen-Belsen ?

Question

don't look it up in wikipedia coz I can do it myself.
just let me know of your pieces of fact that seem most shocking or horrible to you.

Answer 1

Thanks for the question, I learned a lot while researching your subject. After researching this "Holocaust prison," these horrible facts speak to me:

Unfortunately, there has been little publicized about this World War II German concentration (extermination) camp; a place where they murdered thousands of Jews.

In April 1943 the Nazis created Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony near the city of Celle as a transit center - Bergen-Belsen was never officially given formal concentration camp status. But the second commandant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer, completed the transformation of Bergen-Belsen into a regular concentration camp.

By 1945 thousands of prisoners who had become too weak to work were shipped there, to die off slowly by starvation and typhoid. In the one month of March, more than 18,000 succumbed.

Answer 2

The Holocaust took place between 1942 and 1944 where nine million people were exterminated (six million were Jews).

There were two type of camps: concentration camps and death camps. Bergen-Belsen was a death camp. Most if not all of the people did not survive a death camp while thousands survived two or more years in the concentration camps. Bergen-Belsen was built in April 1943 and liberated by the British army in 1945.

I learned about Bergen-belsen in grade school (1960s).

Answer 3

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. "The fact is that all these were once clean-living and sane. Dying man struggles to survive at Bergen-Belsen .
In April 1943 the Nazis created Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony near the city of Celle as a transit center - Bergen-Belsen was never officially given formal .

Answer 4

Anne Frank and her sister Margot died in Bergen-Belsen during a typhus epidemy that killed about 17,000 prisoners in March 1945, a few weeks before the camp was liberated by British troops.

Answer 5

The other respondents have come up with plenty of information. It might be of interest to know that a new visitor centre is currently being built at the site of the camp and is due to open later this year or early 2008.