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unusual facts about Bergen Belsen



Jewish Eindhoven

Any hope of seeing them back was shattered when survivors of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp arrived at Eindhoven Airport in April 1945 who reported that the far, far majority of Dutch Jews had been killed in the camps.


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Alice Parizeau

Born in Łuniniec, Poland, as a young girl Poznańska was associated with the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II, which led to her internment in the Bergen-Belsen prisoner of war camp and her receipt of a war medal following the war.

Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (1942–1945), on the site of the prisoner-of-war camp

Stalag XI-C Bergen-Belsen (1940–1943), a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp

Children in the Holocaust

The German authorities held other children under appalling conditions in transit camps, such as the case of Anne Frank and her sister in Bergen-Belsen, and non-Jewish orphaned children whose parents the German military and police units had killed in so-called anti-partisan operations.

Claude Gewerc

Claude Gewerc (born 21 June 1947, in Bergen-Belsen, Germany) is a French politician, and President of the regional council of Picardie.

Herta Bothe

On January 21, 1945, the 24-years old Bothe accompanied a death march of women prisoners from central Poland to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Celle.

Hugh Hughes

Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes (1892–1973), British brigadier, known for liberating Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Jean Mattéoli

Arrested on 7 April 1944, he was deported to the concentration camp at Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen.

Josef Kramer

Josef Kramer (November 10, 1906 – December 13, 1945) was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Josef Rosensaft

He was injured by gunfire during the escape but walked back to Będzin, where he was captured again, given 250 lashes and confined to a chicken cage, before being sent to Auschwitz and several other concentration camps until he was sent on a death march to Bergen-Belsen, where he was liberated on April 15, 1945.

Kitty Hart-Moxon

From there, the two were eventually sent to Bergen-Belsen, at which point they were abandoned in a locked train car and left to die.

Lisa Goldstein

Elizabeth Joy "Lisa" Goldstein's father was Heinz Jurgen "Harry" Goldstein (born June 8, 1922 in Krefeld, Germany; died May 24, 1974 in Los Angeles), a survivor of concentration camp Bergen-Belsen; her mother, Miriam Roth (born April 8, 1922 in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia; died October 12, 2011 in Los Angeles), survived the extermination camp Auschwitz.

Marion's Triumph

Both were young girls during the war, and both traveled from Westerbork, a deportation camp, to concentration camps; Marion went directly to Bergen-Belsen, but Anne Frank was sent first to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen.

Micha Tomkiewicz

Marcelli Robert (his name was changed after the war to "Micha") Tomkiewicz was born on May 25, 1939 in Warsaw, Poland, and lived in the Warsaw Ghetto before his family was sent off to the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

Nieuw Vosseveld

The Nazis transported Jewish and other prisoners from the Netherlands via the transit camps Amersfoort and Westerbork to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

Norbert Wollheim

Wollheim provided his services on a pro bono basis to organisations like the US Holocaust Council and the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors.

Omer, Israel

Shaul Ladany, world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering

Patrick Gordon Walker

He broadcast about the liberation of the German concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, and wrote a book on the subject called "The Lid Lifts".

Robert Collis

He worked for the Red Cross in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation by Allied troops.

Skikda

On January 25, 1945, 200 Jews holding citizenship from countries in North and South America were sent from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Switzerland as part of a prisoner exchange group.

Stalag XI-C

Stalg XI-C Bergen-Belsen, initially called Stalag 311, was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp located near the town of Bergen in Lower Saxony.

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

However, Anne, Margot and Mrs van Daan were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which was not a death camp, and Otto has high hopes for them.

Twentieth convoy

After further periods in concentration camps near Harzungen (a subcamp of Mittelbau-Dora) and Elrich, he was moved to Bergen-Belsen, where he was liberated on April 15, 1945.

Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

On 1 November 1944 the Jewish members of the women's orchestra were evacuated by cattle car to Bergen-Belsen where there was neither orchestra nor special privileges.

After Rosé the orchestra was conducted haphazardly by Sonia Vinogradovna, a Russian prisoner, but in January 1945 Auschwitz was dismantled by the Nazis and the orchestra was sent to Bergen-Belsen.