Eighty years on, survivors and families remember horrors of Bergen Belsen
180 British Jews joined groups marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Germany (1940–1945)
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas. The camp was later expanded to hold Jews from other concentration camps.
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