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The Shoah (1939–1945)

Agony of Bergen-Belsen

Déc. 1944 – avril 1945·Bergen-Belsen

Toll
~35 000

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

The camp receives evacuees from camps in the East; overcrowding, hunger, and a typhus epidemic kill tens of thousands of prisoners until liberation on 15 April.

From the winter onward, Bergen-Belsen ceased to be an exchange camp and began receiving convoys evacuated from the camps in the East ahead of the Soviet advance. The arrivals, exhausted by marches and transports lasting several weeks, were crowded into barracks with neither sufficient water nor food; typhus broke out and became uncontrollable. The dead were no longer buried.

When British troops entered the camp on 15 April 1945, they found thousands of unburied corpses and dying survivors, and filmed its condition: these images would be the first through which Western public opinion would discover the camps. Many detainees died after liberation, as typhus continued its work. Anne Frank and her sister Margot had succumbed there a few weeks earlier.

Period :
The Shoah (1939–1945)
Type :
Shoah
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

Rapports de l'armée britannique et films tournés à la libération du camp ; témoignages des survivants de Bergen-Belsen.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Bergen-Belsen.

In the same country305

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  3. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  4. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  5. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  6. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  7. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  8. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée

And 297 more in the catalogue.

Event 2222 of 2483, in chronological order · The Shoah (1939–1945): 915 events in the catalogue

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