The words "Bergen-Belsen, 1940 to 1945" are inscribed on a stone wall on the grounds of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in the district of Celle. The memorial of the Nazi-era concentration camp of ...

This week we invited over 40 members of our England Supporters Travel Club to visit former Nazi concentration camp Bergen Belsen in northern Germany. The delegation was co-organised by the Cultural ...

Premier Shimon Peres of Israel laid a wreath at the Jewish memorial monument on the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hannover today. A cantor recited Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.

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.

My visit earlier this month to the site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany, was nothing less than surreal. At this very place during the final months of World War II, ...

Twenty-five years ago, as I left Auschwitz, I was certain I would never set foot in a concentration camp again. As the granddaughter of a survivor, I felt a duty to witness and to honour – but I knew ...

A new exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London chronicles the German camp complex’s history, from its origins housing prisoners of war to its afterlife holding displaced persons Meilan ...

Compared to the appalling number of men, women and children killed at the Nazi extermination camps—places like Sobibor, Chelmno, Treblinka and others where, cumulatively, millions perished—the death ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. At the Imperial War Museum in London, academics and survivors assemble on the occasion ...