Bergen-Belsen concentration camp facts for kids

Bergen-Belson was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. An estimated 50,000 prisoners died there, as well as 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war (POWs). Up to 35,000 of them died of typhus just before and after the camp was liberated (freed).

The camp was liberated on 15 April 1945 by British soldiers. Inside the camp, the British soldiers found 60,000 people, and 13,000 dead bodies lying on the ground, unburied. The scenes were horrific.

Photo gallery

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  Women survivors in Bergen-Belsen, April 1945

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  A crowd watches the last camp hut be destroyed

Images for kids

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  Memorial to Soviet prisoners of war

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  Bergen Belsen crematorium in April 1945

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  British and German officers finalize the arrangements for the ending of their temporary truce, April 1945

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  Some of the 60 tables, each staffed by two German doctors and two German nurses, at which the sick were washed and deloused, May 1–4, 1945

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  Memorial on the ramp where prisoners arrived

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  Memorial for Margot and Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen site

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  One of several mass graves on the site of the former camp; the sign simply reads: '"Here lie 5,000 dead. April 1945"

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  The Jewish Memorial at the site of the former camp, decorated with wreaths on Liberation Day, April 15, 2012

See also

In Spanish: Bergen-Belsen para niños