However once it did become a concentration camp it was not used to help the sick but to preform obscene medical experiments.(Sam Bloch, 24) In barracks that were designed to hold only one hundred people, usually six hundred to one thousand people resided in it. And in these barracks there were no bed linens and no mattresses. The camp was divided into nine sections. A detention camp, two women's camps, a neutral camp, a "star" camp ( mainly Dutch prisoners who wore a Star of David on their clothing instead of prison uniforms), a Hungarian camp, a tent camp and a store for clothes. The camp was only supposed to hold ten thousand prisoners but when the liberation came more than sixty thousand prisoners were detained there.(Rebecca Weiner,1) After the liberation came the British burned down the barracks to prevent any more diseases from spreading. Today all that remains on the sight of the former camp is a graveyard of the thousands upon thousands of people who died there. (Joanne Reilly, 124).
Life of the People .
The lives of the people who were at Bergen Belsen were indeed hard and unimaginable. When railroad cars were unavailable the people were made to go on long marches, the weakest who could not continue were either left there to die or shot immediately. Starvation, cold and disease swept through the camps population, such as typhus which is what Hitler's most famous victim Anne Frank fell to. (Louis Bulow, 2) She arrived to the camp in November 1944 and stayed there until her death six months later. (Rebecca Weiner, 1) People whom officials thought were going to die were taking away and had gross medical experiments preformed on them. The people had no place to sleep so they had to share beds with corpses. Everywhere the people looked, they looked upon decaying human bodies. There was no way to get away from these bodies. They were even lining the ditches and drains.(Klob Eberhard, 5) A Bergen Belsen survivor, Fania Fenelon looks back on here experience and explains a story, "The stench had become intolerable; wrapped in my cloak, a priceless possession, I went out in search of air, to stretch out, to sleep in the open.
Bergen-Belsen Have you ever wondered what exactly happened in the concentration camps that the Nazis used during the Holocaust? ... The camp I am writing of is Bergen-Belsen. ... The detention camp held prisoners from other camps to construct Bergen-Belsen. ... This camp was located in-between the small village of Belsen, and the larger village of Bergen. Bergen had a population of about 13,000. ...
Adolf Hitler, the dictator of the Nazi Party, created a plan called the Final Solution. The plan was to get rid of all of the nine million European Jews. He was very close in achieving their goal. The Final Solution took place during World War II. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler came to powe...
Adolf Hitler, a dictator and his Nazi Party created a plan called "The Final Solution." The plan was to get rid of all of the nine million European Jews. He was very close in achieving their goal. The Final Solution took place during World War II. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler came to powe...
Jewish Holocaust Holocaust a word that sends chills down my spine. Holocaust a word that represents the death of millions of innocent Jews. Holocaust a word that taught the world of how much hatred exists in this world. The Holocaust in one of the most devastating occasions. Let me ...
In October 1944 the three Frank women were in the youngest and strongest group and moved to Belsen in Germany. ... She died three months before her 16th birthday and two months before the liberation of Holland, the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. ...
Anne Frank was born on the 12th June 1929 into a Jewish family in Germany, in the town of Frankfurt an Main however when Anne was 4 years old the Frank family emigrated to Holland where they would be safe from Hitler who was der fuehrer (-the leader) and likely to put them into concentration camps o...
The killing of Jews in the Holocaust was one of the greatest crimes recorded in history. The Nazis did it by having total control over the command of the National Socialists; the active cooperation of a large part of the German population; and the partnership of like-minded governments and people in...
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL ANNE FRANK Edited by Otto. H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Anne Frank and her sad story are remembered; thanks to a diary she kept, while in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Anne Frank was born on June 12th 1929 in Frankfort am Main, Germany. Her Parents we...