Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
German History
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,1 (1993) 36-59
Keywords:
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Surveys the history of Bergen-Belsen, originally a POW camp, which in 1943 became a detention camp for "exchange Jews, " and turned into a concentration camp in 1944. Describes the terrible living conditions in the early months of 1945 until liberation by the British on 15 April. Tens of thousands died due to disease and starvation. Relates the British organization of rehabilitation measures. Although there is no statistical information on the ethnic-religious composition of the camp upon liberation, estimates that more than one half of the 60,000 survivors liberated were Jews. 10,000 unburied corpses were found in the camp on 15 April; ca. 14,000 more died and were buried there by 20 June, again due to illness and malnutrition. Deals also with the centrality of Bergen-Belsen as the major DP camp in the British zone and the demographic profile of the survivors in that zone.
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