Tens of thousands of people, most of them Jews, died at Belsen in northern Germany There had been rumours. There had been aerial photographs. There had been the written testimony of a few escapees.

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BERLIN — Holocaust survivors and officials gathered Sunday at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany in a solemn ceremony to commemorate the liberation of ...

We follow the grim trail of SS commandant Josef Kramer, the man history remembers as the Beast of Belsen. Starting with his ...

The vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants recalls how his mother helped save so many children at the Bergen-Belsen camp — and wonders how she ...

British soldier Bernard Levy, who was just 19-years old when he entered Bergen-Belsen in 1945, has died at the age of 96. The Jewish corporal took part in helping evacuate the survivors from the ...

The last survivor to leave the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after World War II said here today that he was confident an international court of arbitration would forbid France to exhume the mass ...

(JTA) – One might not associate the term “concentration camp” with life. But that is exactly how Menachem Rosensaft views Bergen Belsen. For it was here, in the displaced persons camp set up after ...

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