What are some facts about Bergen-Belsen?

Facts about Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp 2: the death. There were around 50,000 prisoners and 20,000 soviet prisoners who died in Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in 1941 till 1945. During the first few months in 1945, there were around 35,000 prisoners died because of typhus. read more

What struck me is that they had been placed at all, considering the enormity of death (more than 100,000) in Bergen-Belsen. Perhaps they were placed because visitors may have consistently asked about these two young girls, who died weeks before the camp’s liberation. read more

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was then burned to the ground by flamethrowing "Bren gun" carriers and Churchill Crocodile tanks because of the typhus epidemic and louse infestation. As the concentration camp ceased to exist at this point, the name Belsen after this time refers to events at the Bergen-Belsen DP camp. read more