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1. Belsen (full name Bergen-Belsen) was set up in 1943

2. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was located in the area of Belsen.

3. Belsen (also known as Bergen-Belsen) was a concentration camp in north-west Germany

4. Bergen-Belsen, also called Belsen, Nazi German concentration camp near the villages of Bergen and Belsen, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Celle, Germany

5. Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen

6. Dirtpark Belsen, Mössingen, Germany

7. Belsen is situated south of Ofterdingen.

8. In fact, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was …

9. Definition of Belsen in the Definitions.net dictionary

10. Bergen-Belsen, Nazi German concentration camp near the villages of Bergen and Belsen, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Celle, Germany

11. Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

12. Bergen Belsen was liberated on April 15,1945, by British forces

13. Bergen-Belsen was established as a concentration camp in 1943

14. In Bergen-Belsen we diamond cutters were accommodated in a special barrack.

15. Bergen-Belsen was the first main concentration camp which fell into British hands

16. In April 1943 the Nazis created Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony near the city of Celle as a transit center - Bergen-Belsen was never officially given formal concentration camp status

17. Irma Grese, known as the 'beautiful beast' of Belsen, was, according to the charges brought against her at the Belsen Trial in 1945, one of the 'most sinister and hated figures' of the camps

18. More than 20,000 victims of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are buried in mass graves.

19. Belsen definition, locality in NW Germany: site of Nazi concentration camp during World War II

20. Edith was selected for the gas chambers, and her daughters were transported to Bergen-Belsen.

21. At least 19,700 people died in the Bergen-Belsen POW camp from 1940 to 1945

22. Information and translations of Belsen in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

23. "Belsen Was a Gas" is a song by the British punk rock band Sex Pistols

24. The song is about one of the Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany, Bergen-Belsen, which …

25. Belsen, near Hanover in Germany, is the first concentration camp to be liberated by the British

26. Bergen is a town in the north of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany.The infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was located not far from Belsen, one of several farming villages in the borough

27. Bergen-Belsen was initially established in May 1940 as a prisoner of war camp, named Stalag 311

28. Bergen-Belsen, about 40 miles north of Hanover, was established as a prisoner-of-war camp in 1940

29. With the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, safety did not come to its 60, 000 prisoners right away

30. Before Belsen, some of her family members were rounded up by the Nazis, marched into a nearby forest and executed

31. She testified at the 1945 war crimes trial of former commandants and staff members from Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

32. As well as the one built at Belsen, concentration camps were also built at Dachau and Buchenwald (Germany), Mautausen (Austria

33. But the second commandant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer, completed the transformation of Bergen-Belsen into a regular concentration camp.

34. Belsen is a village in Baden-Württemberg and has about 2300 residents and an elevation of 468 metres

35. Belsen, much of the current discourse seems to hold, occupies an elevated place in British collective memory because of its perceived 'Britishness'

36. Belsen - a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection

37. Compared to other sections of Bergen-Belsen, conditions here were quite tolerable until March 1945. Prisoners were not allocated to work commandos.

38. Grese was convicted of crimes involving the ill-treatment and murder of prisoners committed at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and sentenced to death at the Belsen trial.Executed at 22 years of age, Grese was the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century.

39. Belsen definition: a village in NE Germany : with Bergen , the site of a Nazi concentration camp (1943–45) Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

40. After being discovered by the Gestapo in 1944, the Franks were sent to concentration camps, and Anne died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945

41. Dubbed the Beast of Belsen by camp inmates, he was a German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

42. (30 Apr 1945) Belsen CONCENTRATION CAMP - REEL 1 & 2 - SOUNDAvailable in 2k .dpx - \\source clips\movietone\hd\BM 45720 - CR 336

43. The 63rd Anti-tank Regiment and the 11th Armoured Division of the British army liberate about 60,000 prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

44. Bergen-Belsen, this center of one of the most horrific atrocities in human history, had to also seem insane to an innocent young teen

45. Starring Iain Glen, this award-winning movie recalls the actual events that transpired at Belsen as the British fought typhus, starvation and their own humanity

46. The first person is the author's mother, Rachel, who lived through hell and precariously hung on to life at Bergen-Belsen and thereafter after having survived Auschwitz, a slave labor camp and a death march ending up at Bergen-Belsen, where tens of thousands died from disease and mistreatment in a short period at the end of the war.

47. From 1943 to 1945, at least 52,000 women, men and children died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp or of the immediate effects of their imprisonment

48. 13 He had arrived at the concentration camp of Belsen a week after it was liberated, and was stationed in Berlin for eight months after the war ended.

49. Anne Frank, who died at Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi prison camp, just before her sixteenth birthday, is renowned for her precocity about culture, politics, and human nature.

50. 11 Anne Frank, who died at Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi prison camp, just before her sixteenth birthday, is renowned for her precocity about culture, politics, and human nature.

51. While Hannah was in Bergen-Belsen, she met Auguste van Pels by asking through a hay-filled barbed wire fence if anyone who could hear her voice spoke Dutch.

52. Ms. Grese was hanged at the age of 21 for war crimes committed in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; Ms. Koch was convicted of participating in murders at Buchenwald.

53. Why Was Irma Grese, the Beast of Belsen, so Hated? Nazi camp guard Irma Grese, who reveled in the torture and murder of internees, was, at 22, the youngest war criminal hanged.

54. As it drove into Germany, the 11th Armoured Division occupied the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945, pursuant to an April 12 agreement with the retreating Germans to surrender

55. With improvements in hygiene and nutrition, noma has disappeared from industrialized countries since the 20th century, except during World War II when it was endemic to Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps.

56. Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (from December 1944 to its liberation, April 15, 1945)

57. As the British Army advanced into the heart of Nazi Germany in the spring of 1945, its soldiers were confronted with the full horrors of the Holocaust when they reached the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hanover

58. The deaths at Bergen-Belsen were mostly due to a massive epidemic of typhus, starvation, other diseases, exhaustion and other forms of execution (beating, gunshot, etc.) The "fact" behind this song is inaccurate as is the song itself.

59. The commandant of Bergen-Belsen, Josef Kramer, and fourty-four others were tried by a British war crimes court at Luneburg, from the 17th August 1945 to the 17th November 1945.Thirty of the accused were found guilty, of these, twelve were sentenced to death …

60. Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp eloquently and movingly tell of their experiences of deportation, family destruction, and their own survival, together with the history of its place in the Nazi death camp system and its liberation by the British army in April 1945.

61. Anne Frank, in full Annelies Marie Frank, (born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover), Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature.