Bergen-Belsen
German concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in northern Germany where tens of thousands of prisoners died from starvation, disease, and systematic neglect during World War II.
Anne Frank died there in 1945, weeks before British forces liberated the camp.
The name evokes the horrors of the Holocaust and the conditions—piles of unburied corpses—that shocked the world when documented by Allied troops.
Facility for mass political detention
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
- watchtowersTall posts for surveillance
liberation · British Army · inmates · starvation · typhus · overcrowding · Nazi · Holocaust
- deporteesThose legally removed
- JewsFollowers of Judaism
- political prisonersPeople jailed for ideology
- RomaTraveler ethnic group
POWs · children · families · death toll · names · identities · photographs · diaries
Public exhibit space
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- mass gravesShared burial for many
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
survivor testimony · education · visitors · exhibits · obelisk · inscriptions · eternal flame · foundation
United Kingdom's armed services
- discoveryAct of finding something
- newsreelsFilmed news for cinemas
- photographsLight-captured images
- mass burialCollective interment of bodies
medical aid · DDT · humanitarian crisis · shock · documentation · war correspondents · rescue · aftermath
concentration camp
Facility for mass political detention
watchtowers · liberation · British Army · inmates · starvation · typhus · overcrowding · Nazi · Holocaust · displaced persons
Anne Frank
- deporteesThose legally removed
- JewsFollowers of Judaism
- political prisonersPeople jailed for ideology
Roma · POWs · children · families · death toll · names · identities · photographs · diaries · personal belongings
museum
Public exhibit space
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- mass gravesShared burial for many
commemoration · survivor testimony · education · visitors · exhibits · obelisk · inscriptions · eternal flame · foundation · archives
British forces
United Kingdom's armed services
- discoveryAct of finding something
- newsreelsFilmed news for cinemas
- photographsLight-captured images
mass burial · medical aid · DDT · humanitarian crisis · shock · documentation · war correspondents · rescue · aftermath · recovery
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- Disaster SitesChernobyl, Pompeii, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima
- Atrocity SitesAuschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Warsaw Ghetto, Rwandan Genocide
- German JewsAshkenazi, Holocaust, Kristallnacht, Nuremberg Laws, concentration camps
- WWII AtrocitiesHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, death camps, gas chambers
Bergen-BelsenAnne Frank House
Museum at historic hiding site
synagogues · Israel · kibbutzim · Jerusalem · peace memorials
Bergen-BelsenNuremberg
German trial city
Bergen-Belsensanctuary
Protected sacred space
safe haven · refuge · promised land · Sweden · Switzerland