Opened in 1940 as a prisoner-of-war camp, this facility was renamed Stalag 311 in 1941 when it housed approximately 20,000 Soviet POWs; 16,000-18,000 of these prisoners died of epidemics, malnutrition and exposure by 1942. The camp was renamed Bergen-Belsen in April 1943 and then held male and female Jews with foreign passports or visas who might be exchanged for German nationals held abroad. Between March 1944 and early 1945, Bergen-Belsen received prisoners from other camps for possible exchange as well as large numbers of prisoners evacuated from camps in the east. Rapidly deteriorating conditions led to massive epidemics, starvation and the deaths of thousands.
Originally a prisoner-exchange camp, it became a concentration and extermination camp in March 1944. Anne Frank died there in March 1945.
This was the camp where Anne Frank died in March 1945, a year after the prisoner-exchange camp in Northern Germany had been converted to a concentration camp.
A concentration camp in northern Germany. Epidemics, overcrowding, and planned starvation in this camp led to the deaths of more than 34,168 people, including Anne and Margot Frank.
Located in nor-them Germany, transformed from a prisoner exchange camp into a concentration camp in March, 1944. Poor sanitary conditions, epidemics, no medical assistance, slave labor, and starvation led to tens of thousand of deaths, including Anne and Margot Frank in March 1945.
Nazi concentration camp in northwestern Germany. Erected in 1943. Thousands of Jews, political prisoners, and POWs were killed there. Liberated by British troops in April 1945, although many of the remaining prisoners died of typhus after liberation.
Concentration camp in Germany. After the death and labor camps in the East were taken apart, thousands of the emaciated prisoners were forced into Bergen-Belsen.