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    Bergen-Belsen (pronounced [ˈbɛʁɡn̩ˌbɛlsn̩]), or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the...
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    functionaries) from the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps. Josef Kramer had been camp commandant at Bergen-Belsen and before that at Auschwitz...
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    Irma Grese (redirect from Bitch of belsen)
    Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was a volunteer member of the SS. Grese was convicted of crimes...
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    Felice Schragenheim (category German people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
    Schragenheim, were taken on a death march to KZ Groß-Rosen, maybe later to a death march to KZ Bergen-Belsen. The date and place of her death are unknown...
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    1944) and of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 April 1945). Dubbed The Beast of Belsen by camp inmates,...
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    Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp was a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II, in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest...
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    Another 3,000 who were very ill or dying were sent to Lublin-Majdanek and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Few of them survived. At the end of 1943, the Dora...
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    prisoners, commandant Max Koegel ordered hundreds of sick prisoners sent to Bergen-Belsen in April. In order to cope with the disorder, he founded a camp police...
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    his prison kitchen. When orders came to transport all prisoners to KZ-Bergen-Belsen on January 18, 1945 they organized the escape of the five girls. Two...
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    Anneliese Kohlmann (category People convicted in the Belsen trial)
    established by the SS in Hamburg, Germany; and at Bergen-Belsen. She was tried for war crimes at the Belsen Trial in Lüneburg in 1946. Kohlmann was born in...
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    Franz Hössler (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp personnel)
    Schutzhaftlagerführer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during World War II. Captured by the Allies at the...
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    Renate Lasker-Harpprecht (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
    She survived the Holocaust, having been imprisoned at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Lasker-Harpprecht was arrested on 5 June 1943 along with her sister...
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    Twenty-eight Aufseherinnen served in Vught, some at Buchenwald, 60 in Bergen-Belsen, one at Dachau overseeing the brothel, more than 30 in Mauthausen (January...
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    Kapo (redirect from Kapo (KZ))
    camp to the Bergen-Belsen camp in April 1945. While not in good health, these prisoners were in far better condition than those in Bergen-Belsen. Upon the...
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  • Bruno Brodniewicz (category German people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
    elder), carrying prisoner tag number 1. He died in April 15–16, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As a convicted criminal, Brodniewicz was transferred...
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  • World War. On 8 April 1945 over 3,000 internees being transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were killed in an Allied air raid and subsequent...
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  • Together with his father, Moshe was relocated first to KZ Echterdingen [de], and then to Bergen-Belsen, where they both died in January 1945. Flinker began...
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  • their skeletons 100.414 1 April 1933 Franz Hoessler K-Z Auschwitz; KZ Bergen Belsen 41.940 1931 1.374.713 Wilhelm Gottlieb Hohmann Born 07 I 1907 Remscheid...
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  • Nazi era. Vielleicht war das alles erst der Anfang. Tagebuch aus dem KZ Bergen-Belsen 1944-1945 mit Hanna Levy-Hass; Rotbuch Verlag 1979 Im Scheunenviertel...
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    – among them also these two Jewish girls - should be moved to the KZ Bergen-Belsen. Maria Stocker hosted Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki and Miriam Fuks, through...
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  • The commandant (German: KZ-Kommandant, Lagerkommandant) was the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp. He held the...
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    Franz Stofel (category Belsen trial executions)
    Wagner: Produktion des Todes: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora, Göttingen 2001, p. 673 (in German) Aussage George Kraft im Bergen-Belsen-Prozess vom 11. Oktober 1945...
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  • Zena Werb (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
    signaling. Zena Werb was born in Germany in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (KZ Bergen-Belsen), a few weeks before the camp was liberated. Both...
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  • Gizela Munková 23 October 1900 Lučenec, Slovakia March-April 1945 KZ Bergen-Belsen, Celle, Germany Archdiocese of Bratislava Couples killed in odium fidei...
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  • the camp authorities on a so-called death march towards the camp at Bergen-Belsen to the west. This was a response by the German authorities to the seemingly...
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    Eventually, more women and children came to Mauthausen from Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. Along with the female prisoners came some...
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    1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9, S. 381, 1944 im KZ Groß-Rosen. Die Angabe „Braunschweig Zuchthaus Wolfenbüttel“ ist irreführend...
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    concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen. Male SS members were not permitted to enter the female camps. Irma...
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    emptied later that month on death marches to the reception camps of Bergen-Belsen and Osnabrück, and, on 8 April, an air raid on a prisoner train transport...
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    Lucille Eichengreen (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
    and the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. She moved to the United States in 1946, married, had two sons and worked...
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