overview Bergen-Belsen was a nazi concentration camp. It was not a death camp but many people or prisoners died there during the camp. Located in the small towns of bergen and Belsen .It was originally a prisoner war camp but in 1943 parts of it started becoming a concentration camp. After the whole camp was given over to the SS it was built into three main components with were the: "POW (prisoners of war) camp" which went on from 1940-Jan 1945. The"residence camp" started around April 1943 to April
explore the camp that is Bergen-Belsen and its workers, campy system, liberation and trial. The notorious detention camp, Bergen-Belsen, was constructed in 1940 and “was near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages Bergen and Belsen” (jewishvirtuallibrary.org), hence the name. Originally, the “camp was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners” (jewishvirtuallibrary.org) but, Bergen-Belsen rapidly grew. “In the first eighteen months of existence, there were already five satellite camps.” (holocaustresearchproject
Young Girl. Anne, her family, the Van Daan's and Mr. Dussel went into hiding in the secret Annex building. Anne kept a diary while she was in hiding and recorded her everyday life. Unfortunately, she was taken to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and then later to Auschwitz concentration camp. There she died from typhus, which is an infectious disease caused by fleas, lice, or mites. In this essay, these questions will be answered: Who was Anne Frank? Why did she write, "In spite of everything, I still
While researching things about Josef Kramer I found out things that I didn't know before. Such as concentration camps and what it was like to live back then. Josef Kramer was the commandant of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp he was nicknamed The Beast of Belsen. Kramer was born on November 10th, 1906 and died on December 13th, 1945 by being hanged. He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. Josef Kramer was born and grew up in Munich as an only child in a middle class
When I was a child, a very close family friend of ours from Israel, Joyce Kleinman (now Wilner), and her sister Reisi Kleinman (now Greenbaum) entered the Auschwitz concentration camp at the ages of 15 and 12 years old. Years later, Joyce’s son Mike Wilner composed an interview that included his mother Joyce and Aunt Reisi outlining the significant events that led to the survival of both sisters and illustrated the events that took place during the Holocaust in which an estimated 6 million Jews were
imprisoned because his company would send gifts around Christmas to “woo” customers. However, he was now a Hauptsturmfuhrer at Birkenau and a head of pharmaceutical depots of the camps. Even though he knew Olga, he was not generous enough to give her medicine to use on patients in the infirmary. Capezius would often leave the camp to visit his family in Segesvar. On one return from visit, he told one inmate who lived in his community, Dr. Bohm, that he told her brother that he would take care of her. This
According to Bergen-Belsen, “Approximately 50,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen camp complex. Among them was Anne Frank, the most well known child diarist of the Holocaust era.” Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp located in the towns Bergen and Belsen in Germany. Thousands and thousands of Jews died at this concentration camp. The living conditions poor, disease spread, and Jews were filthy and unsanitary. What was Bergen-Belsen? Bergen Belsen Nazi Concentration Camp was established in
Anne frank's life on the concentration camps was a struggle and very harsh. Anne frank was a teenage girl , a victim caught up in hitler and his beliefs. “Anne was born on june 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany” (Herman 1). Anne and her family lived in germany for almost all of anne's life. During annes lifetime she has went to 2 schools one before jews and non jews were separated and one schools for jews because hitler didnt like jews so this was on the many things hitler did along with jews wearing
statistics and in WWII the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was no different. In the first few months that Bergen-Belsen was established 35,000 prisoners died. At the end of July 1944 there were 7,300, December 1944 15,000, February 1945 22,000 and by April more than 60,000 prisoners. In the Bergen-Belsen Special Camp 2,400 people here were transferred to Auschwitz and immediately shot, gassed and killed, while 350 more suffered in similar ways. Also in the Hungarian camp- Ungarnlager 1,000 sick prisoners
presentation, as well as the walking tours of Bergen-Belsen, are free of charge. At Bergen-Belsen, there is a newly opened Documentation Center, which houses photographs, documents, and films exploring the history of the camp. A guided walk through the Soviet Prisoner of War Cemetery, is also included in the tour of Bergen-Belsen.The tour is a guided program that includes the permanent exhibitions at the memorial museum. The last tour segment of Bergen-Belsen takes visitors to the railway ramp than was
the rest of the population. Thus began the extermination of the Jews. Rudolph Höss was the first commandant of a concentration camp called Auschwitz in April 1940. Auschwitz was established near the Polish city of Oswiecim. This complex was the largest of all the Nazi death camps across Europe and could hold up to one hundred fifty thousand inmates at any given time. This concentration camp had mainly killed 2.1 million to 4 million Jews. The majority of prisoners held at Auschwitz were killed in the
will talk about her background, life in hiding, and arrest and deportation. First, I will talk about Anne Frank’s Background. Anne frank was a girl who was Jewish, she was born on June 12, 1929, In Frankfurt Germany On March 1, 1945 at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp she died. The next thing is fleeing. When Hitler became leader of Germany, the family left Germany and moved to Amsterdam in Netherlands. They were amongst 300,000 Jews who escaped to Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939. Anne and her family
chosen to die at each selection. In Anatomy of Auschwitz Death Camp, Danuta Czech stated, “The highest number of such deaths was in February 1943, when 25.5 percent of all Auschwitz inmates died or were put to death.” Irma Grese and Dr. Josef Mengele many times made these selections together. Alice Kahana remembered, “When the two of them appeared, it was terror and fear. I was…always meant death.” Those who made it into the camp with family members lived in constant fear of their loved ones
Westerbork Concentration Camp Westerbork Concentration Camp was one of the transit camps the Germans built. In this camp the Jewish Security Service chose those who would die. The purpose of this paper is to inform about the environment of the camp, when the camp existed, and why the Germans created the camp. During WWII the Germans made the brutal environment. Westerbork was located in the Netherlands. Westerbork had weird things like, it had a classroom, a restaurant, a hairdresser, and an orchestra
transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp in Poland. Anne and Margot were not killed in the Auschwitz gas chambers but were rather sent to Bergen-Belsen, which was a concentration camp located in northern Germany. The sisters died in March of 1945 from typhus at Bergen-Belsen. After their death, their bodies were simply thrown into an unmarked mass grave. A few weeks after their death in April, Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British. Otto Frank was the only
of the holocaust was Anne Frank, and mostly famous for her diary that was found after she was killed in a concentration camp. Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne Frank lived with her family in Amsterdam during World War II. Anne wrote down all of her thoughts and experiences into a journal. When she was 15 her family was found in the Secret Annex and sent to camps, where she was killed. Her diary was found and is now the second most read book next to the Bible. For
capture them. She and about 8 others spent two years in hiding in Amsterdam, until they ended up being captured and sent over to one of Hitler’s Concentration camps. At this time, Anne Frank was about 15 years old. She was transferred from Auschwitz concentration camp in November of 1944 to another Bergen-Belsen. She spent a few months in Bergen-Belsen where she eventually died in the month of march of 1945 of a disease called
Imagine being isolated from the rest of the world in plain sight. Hiding from your country so you wouldn’t be captured and sent to concentration camps to die. Well, this is how the majority of Jewish people lived. They lived in fear and in hiding to be captured during World War II. Anne Frank and her family were one of the millions of Jews that were prosecuted and hunt down by the Nazis. These people were normal people just like us but they were considered "dangerous" just because they had a different
What is a concentration camp? If you look it up on google, this is what it will tell you: “A place where large numbers of people, especially political or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazies in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933-1945, among the most infamous being
“The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them,” Ruth Klüge. The Holocaust is one of the greatest tragedies in the worlds’ history. It was an era, during World War 2, that was one of history’s worst genocides. Many people do not believe that this tragedy happened. Two to three percent of people survived to tell their story. The Holocaust actually happened