His name was Josef Kramer and he was considered to be the meanest, most heartless person to ever step foot into Bergen Belsen. He was also the person who helped turn Bergen Belsen into a full-fledged concentration camp. However, he was not the first person to run Bergen Belsen. It’s first commander was Adolf Haas. But in early 1944 Josef was put in charge.(Louis Bulow, 6) He had already been desensitized to the violence, death and bad things that happened at concentration camps because he had worked in camps just like Bergen Belsen since 1934. His latest job was at Auschwitz death camp. Some people say that this is what enabled him to be so cruel. (Klob Eberhard, 4) He beat women, kicked pregnant

On April 15th 1945 Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp was liberated by the British. It was the first major camp to be liberated. This got a lot of press coverage so the world finally got to see what was really going on in the concentration camps in Europe. On liberation day the British found ten thousand unburied corpses and forty thousand sick or dying prisoners. Sixty-thousand prisoners were present at the time of the liberation. Afterwards about five hundred people died daily of starvation and typhus reaching fourteen-thousand more deaths. Massive graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished. (Rebecca Weiner,1) By 1951 the camp was empty. Some people had stayed there and established a community because they had no homes to go back to .(Joanne Reilly, 138) The total number of all prisoners who died at this camp was in the margin of one-hundred thousand too one-hundred and twenty thousand. We will never know the exact number because the people who ran the camp destroyed the register of prisoners before the liberation. (Klob Eberhard, 7) If Bergen Belsen never existed then we might still have one-hundred and twenty thousand souls with us, not to mention the lives that would have been created from these people. However that is not the case, Bergen Belsen did exist, and all we can do as humankind to honor their memory and the memory of those who never were, is to make sure that history does not repeat itself, for their sake and for ours.

women in the stomach, and even shattered a woman’s skull, when he was upset about something. Later that year there was a huge epidemic of diarrhea. His idea

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