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	Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bergen-Belsen, (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.
		In 1942 Bergen-Belsen became a concentration camp; it was placed under SS command in April 1943.
		Belsen was created in 1940 as a POW camp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belsen (1129 words)

	Bergen-Belsen
		Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen.
		The camp’s SS commandant, Josef Kramer, known as the "Beast of Belsen" was tried and found guilty by a British military court and was subsequently hanged.
		Most of Bergen-Belsen’s DPs immigrated to Israel, the United States and Canada.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html (940 words)

	Bergen-Belsen
		Bergen-Belsen DP camp was established in a defunct German army camp near the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, whose barracks had been burned as a health precaution.
		Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp organized political, cultural, and religious activities just weeks after liberation.
		Though Bergen-Belsen was the only all-Jewish camp in the British zone of Germany, the camp's survivors struggled with the British policy of denying Jews status as a distinct group for nearly a year before securing an exclusively Jewish community.
	www.ushmm.org /museum/exhibit/online/dp/camp1.htm (480 words)

	Bergen-Belsen
		It was initially used as a POW camp but by the fall of 1944 had become a concentration camp for Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies and Political Dissidents.
		The camp was destroyed to check the spread of disease and try to erase the horror so all that remains is a large field, the monuments and the mounds over the the buial pits.
		When the British forces liberated the camp on April 15, 1944 there were so many bodies lying in piles that they were forced to dig large pits and push them in with bulldozers.
	www.ccsi.com /~mbrown/Travel/Bergen-Belsen/bergen-belsen.html (425 words)

	Bergen-Belsen: Nazi Concentration Camp near Belsen, Germany, used both as a transitory camp and prison for Jews, dissidents, Soviet POWs and French/Belgium populations.
		Bergen-Belsen: Nazi Concentration Camp near Belsen, Germany, used both as a transitory camp and prison for Jews, dissidents, Soviet POWs and French/Belgium populations.
		Dachau was one of the first 4 German Concentration camps founded in 1933 and staffed by the SS Death headers.
		Dachau grew into one of the most dreaded concentration camps or killing centers: the slaughter and ill conditions were so remarkable, that when American troops walked in, they were in disbelief.
	www.shoaheducation.com /camps/dachau.html (479 words)

	Bergen-Belsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1942-1945), initially a POW camp from 1940-1942.
		Bergen-Belsen DP camp, a displaced persons camp set up by British forces in 1945 near the site of the concentration camp.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bergen-Belsen (104 words)

	Bergen-Belsen
		In March 1944, prisoners from other concentration camps who were too ill or no longer able to work were brought to Bergen-Belsen.
		The "prisoners' camp" housed Jewish prisoners brought from the Natzweiler-Struthof and Buchenwald concentration camps to construct the camp.
		Prisoners in the "star camp" were not required to wear camp uniforms, but instead had the Star of David sewn onto their clothing (thus the camp's name).
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005224 (691 words)

	Bergen Belsen Camp Description
		A childhood friend imprisoned in the camp, Lise Kostler, recounted her reunion with Anne in 1945 in Bergen-Belsen, in the 1996 film, Anne Frank Remembered.
		The detention camp held prisoners brought from other camps to construct Bergen-Belsen.
		In April, 1943, the camp was converted to a concentration camp, primarily for Jews with foreign passports who could be exchanged for German nationals imprisoned abroad.
	www.library.gatech.edu /projects/holocaust/bergendes.htm (638 words)

	Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp - photo's, some by me, and text
		Belsen, like the other concentration camps was established to hold what were considered, by the Nazi regime, as undesirable people, ranging from Jews to relatives of famous German citizens who had fled overseas.
		Camp Commandant Bergen Belsen, arrested by a British Soldier
		Belsen was not an extermination camp (whose sole purpose was the mechanical process of killing thousands of people at a time, and utilising their by-products).
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/belsen.html (3030 words)

	Interview with Sir Brian Urquhart - p. 3 of 8
		We were quite far ahead and we got to the Belsen concentration camp, which was a very large one, more or less by mistake because we didn't get the radio message telling all the troops to stop.
		And then we said to the Jewish doctors, "Who is the commandant of this camp?" "Oh," they said, "He's still here, he's in the SS barracks which are outside the camp." So we went down there and there was this person who later became very famous as the "Beast of Belsen." He was called Krämer.
		The concentration camps were an unbelievable eye-opener, and I can't imagine why we hadn't been told about them.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /UN/Urquhart/urquhart3.html (961 words)

	Bergen-Belsen Liberation Sign and Photos
		After liberation, the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen became the site of a displaced persons' camp, the British army medical corps helping in the physical rehabilitation of the former prisoners.
		Women survivors in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp peel potatoes on April 28, 1945.
		Bergen Belsen was the first death camp entered by the Western allies and first-hand accounts of mass graves,
	isurvived.org /Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html (218 words)

	Excerpts from The Belsen Trial (1/5)
		So far as one knows, Belsen was originally a small camp, a transit camp, but at the end of November of last year Josef Kramer, who had been in the concentration camp service throughout the period of Nazi ascendancy, having joined as a volunteer in 1932, was called to Berlin.
		In Berlin he saw the head of the concentration camp service and was told that Belsen was to become a convalescent camp for sick persons from concentration camps, factories, farms, displaced persons from the whole of northwest Europe.
		If you are satisfied on the evidence that these conditions did exist in Belsen and in Auschwitz, then the Prosecution have amply made out a case against each one of those prisoners who took an active part at either of those camps, however small it may be.
	www.nizkor.org /hweb/camps/bergen-belsen/belsen-trial-01.html (578 words)

	Canadian Jewish News
		Thirty-two Canadians, several of whom were born in Bergen-Belsen after World War II when it was was used as a displaced persons camp, attended the ceremony, which was organized by the Lower Saxony ministry of education in conjunction with the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, headed by Sam Bloch.
		Simon Veil, the former French cabinet minister and president of the European Union who spent several months in Bergen-Belsen, spoke of its horrors and of the exultation of being liberated.
		The camp, now a memorial and documentation centre, was liberated by British and Canadian troops on April 15, 1945, some three weeks before Germany´s official surrender.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=6187 (1115 words)

	Survivors mark Bergen-Belsen camp liberation. 16/04/2005. ABC News Online
		Survivors of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, where 70,000 people died, have gathered for a low-key ceremony to mark their liberation by British troops 60 years ago to the day.
		The Nazis opened Bergen-Belsen in 1940 and the first convoys of French and Belgian prisoners of war began arriving.
		The camp near Hanover in northern Germany was the first to be liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, just weeks before Nazi Germany surrendered.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200504/s1346607.htm (494 words)

	Belsen - World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online
		Remarks at a Commemorative Ceremony at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in the Federal Republic of Germany.
		Interior of one of the huts at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
		Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British forces on 15
	belsen.surferfind.com (200 words)

	Jürgen Graf: National Socialist Concentration Camps: Legend and Reality
		The main reason for the mass deaths in 1945, however, was not starvation, but epidemics, caused by the evacuation of the eastern camps, which in turn spread epidemic diseases to the overcrowded western concentration camps and could not be brought under control as a result of wartime conditions.
		During the American Civil War, both the North and South maintained concentration camps for prisoners of war and civilian enemy sympathizers; a considerable percentage of these inmates died, mostly from epidemics.
		While the number of internees in the camps still amounted to 27,000 in October of 1933, their numbers fell to 7,000 by February 1934 as a result of the rapidly relaxing political situation[20] and then remained quite stable, although in addition to political prisoners hardened criminals ("Berufsverbrecher") and "Asocials" (tramps, beggars etc.) were interned too.
	www.vho.org /GB/Books/dth/fndGraf.html (12793 words)

	Bergen-Belsen camp
		The liberation of the camp was late in coming because Bergen was located in the heart of the Reich.
		The camp was originally designed to accomodate about 10 000 Jews which would be exchanged.
		The SS abandoned the camp and left the prisoners to fend for themselves without food...
	www.ac-rouen.fr /lycees/malraux/resistance/ebergen.html (222 words)

	BBC - History - Liberation of the Concentration Camps
		In the preceding weeks, the Germans had deposited in No.1 Camp over 60,000 prisoners, mostly Jews transported from other concentration camps threatened by the Allied advance.
		13,000 Belsen inmates died after the camp was liberated ©
		During a locally-arranged truce, the German negotiators stated that as the camp had 9,000 sick inmates, many of them with typhus, but neither water nor medical supplies, they were prepared to surrender the camp and the neighbouring area.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/wwtwo/liberation_camps_03.shtml (366 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Holocaust survivors mark 60th anniversary
		Established in 1940 by the Nazis, appromixately 50,000 - 70,000 people died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, the majority being Jewish.
		She died of typhus a few weeks before the camp was liberated, one of 1.5 million Jewish children killed during the Holocaust.
		As many as 70,000 people died at the Nazi camp in northern Germany, which was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/15/holocaust_survivors_mark_60th_anniversary (272 words)

	Telegraph News Horrors of Belsen flood back for survivors
		British military veterans were greeted with gasps, tears and murmured thanks as they marched into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation.
		Images from the camp - not a death camp like Auschwitz but one where Germans left prisoners to die of starvation and disease - were the first to show the horror of the Holocaust.
		Survivors, their children and members of British forces who liberated the camp near Hanover, had gathered to commemorate those who died and to set a marker against such atrocities happening again.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/18/wbels18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/18/ixhome.html (278 words)

	BBC NEWS Europe Liberation of Belsen commemorated
		Bergen-Belsen was originally created as a transit centre, but later became a fully-fledged concentration camp in all but name.
		Holocaust survivors and their liberators have been marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
		The Nazi death camp, near Hanover in Germany, was the first to be liberated by British troops, on 15 April 1945.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4445529.stm (499 words)

	Publications of Concentration Camp Memorial Neuengamme
		Thus it was mainly SS personnel and guards from the concentration camps in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Mittelbau-Dora, who happened to be stationed in Bergen-Belsen at the time, who were brought to trial under British military jurisdiction-whereby crimes committed by the SS against German prisoners and those from former Axis countries went unpunished.
		Even if the British Bergen-Belsen trials did not punish all the perpetrators from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, these nonetheless remained the only three trials in which Bergen-Belsen was the explicit reason behind the comprehensive legal proceedings.
		No comprehensive and complex legal proceedings were ever initiated against former SS staff members of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by either West or East German courts.
	fhh1.hamburg.de /Neuengamme/Publikationen/07-03.en.html (287 words)

	Bergen Belsen
		Beginning in March 1944 sick or invalid prisoners from other camps were placed in this section of Bergen-Belsen.
		From July 1941 a group of 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war began to arrive and were kept in the open under extremely difficult conditions.) For this purpose the SS had requisitioned from the army a portion of the prisoner of war camp, Bergen-Belsen, thus the "detention camp Bergen-Belsen" came into existence.
		The camp was thus divided into sections to accommodate the different types of inmates, and prisoners received different treatment depending on their classification.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /ekelly/bergen.htm (2721 words)

	Miller Center — Ronald Reagan Speeches
		As we flew here from Hanover, low over the greening farms and the emerging springtime of the lovely German countryside, I reflected, and there must have been a time when the prisoners at Bergen-Belsen and those of every other camp must have felt the springtime was gone forever from their lives.
		Today, we've been grimly reminded why the commandant of this camp was named ``the Beast of Belsen.'' Above all, we're struck by the horror of it all -- the monstrous, incomprehensible horror.
		The awful evil started by one man, an evil that victimized all the world with its destruction, was uniquely destructive of the millions forced into the grim abyss of these camps.
	www.millercenter.virginia.edu /scripps/diglibrary/prezspeeches/reagan/rwr_1985_0505.html (1067 words)

	! The Undeniable Holocaust: A Pictorial Archive of Nazi Atrocities
		A mass grave at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
	www.parascope.com /gallery/galleryitems/holocaust/holocaust15.htm (17 words)

	Trafford Publishing: From Rebuke to Rejoicing
		This is the story of the author, Moshe Nordheim, a Dutch Jewish boy, who abruptly loses his pastoral childhood on the banks of the river in Amsterdam when he is deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp together with his parents and siblings.
		After surviving the concentration camps as a child between the ages of 9 and 11, as described in the book, the author immigrated to Israel in 1946.
		Moshe, the child, survives the concentration camps and tells his personal account of his many brushes with death.
	www.trafford.com /4dcgi/robots/04-0638.html (1798 words)

	Rainer Schulze: Rescue Attempts for Jewish Prisoners held at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 1943-1945
		From the outset, a separate section, or sub-camp of Bergen-Belsen served as a “regular”concentration camp.
		However, the camp was not given the status of a civilian internment camp, but upon Himmler's specific instruction was integrated into the system of concentration camps and was administered by the SS.
		Established only in spring 1943, it had at least at the beginning a singular position within the system of concentration camps as it was set up to collect small groups of European Jews who were to be kept ready for a possible exchange against German civilians interned abroad.
	www.essex.ac.uk /history/staff/schulze-bb-project.shtm (579 words)

	Anne Frank Headstone at Bergen-Belsen Page
		In 1999, surviving Swiss relatives of Anne and Margot Frank erected this headstone at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, in northern Germany.
		Anne Frank is perhaps the most well-known victim of the Holocaust due to her father's publication of her diary after the war called "The Diary of Anne Frank." The memoir is the most widely read book about the Holocaust.
	www.rudyfoto.com /hol/ber-frankstone.html (59 words)

	Hundred's of Links's to Jewish Holocaust with thousands of links to Jewish everything worldwide...
		Bergen-Belsen DP Camp - After liberation, a camp for displaced persons was established near the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
		The Bergen-Belsen DP camp was the largest DP camp in Germany and the only all-Jewish camp in the British zone of Germany.
		Priests of Dachau - The Dachau concentration camp was the first established to hold political prisoners.
	www.jewishlink.net /holocaust.html (3793 words)

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