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Bergen-Belsen

American  
[ber-guhn-bel-zuhn, bur-guhn-bel-suhn] / ˈbɛr gənˈbɛl zən, ˈbɜr gənˈbɛl sən /

noun

  1. Belsen.


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Frank learned first of his wife Edith’s death at Auschwitz, and only later that Anne and Margot had died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the end of the war approached, he was stationed at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

From BBC

Nowhere was this more true than when British and Canadian troops advanced on the camp at Bergen-Belsen, near Hanover, in April 1945.

From BBC

Determined to erase the evidence of their crimes, the Nazis ordered 56,000 remaining prisoners to march west to other concentration camps, such as Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Sachsenhausen.

From BBC

Her family was arrested in August 1944 and she died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in February 1945.

From Seattle Times