Directory of Bergen-Belsen Resources

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Started in 1940 as a POW camp. Later it became a concentration camp. The SS took command of it in April 1943. In March 1944 the camp was redesignated as a Recovery Camp, where prisoners of other camps too sick to work were brought.

Resources in This Category

• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Bergen-Belsen

  http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/bergen.htm
  Contains recent photographs of the memorial.

• Bergen Belsen Memorial

  http://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/
  Information about the memorial, such as maps, exhibitions, and publications. Site also illustrates the history of the camp for prisoners of war, concentration camp and displaced persons camp in Bergen-Belsen.

• Bergen-Belsen

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsentoc.html
  Contains photos and information on the trial.

• Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed story

  http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html
  Details the conditions of the camp, before and after the British takeover.

• The Nizkor Project: Bergen-Belsen

  http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/bergen-belsen/
  Contains transcripts of the Belsen trial.

• Wikipedia: Bergen-Belsen

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen
  Contains a brief history of the camp.

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• Home > Regional > Europe > Germany > States > Lower Saxony > Localities > Celle

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