Queen Elizabeth II Visits Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Woman born in concentration camp shares story on Holocaust Remembrance Day

When the British Army liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945, they were confronted with a scene so horrific that it would profoundly impact post-war history and haunt those who witnessed it. The British 11th Armoured Division, led by Major-General Raymond Briggs, was one of the first units to reach the camp. The division had been advancing eastward through Germany, and the discovery of Bergen-Belsen was an unexpected and devastating part of their mission. As the soldier

The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen – 15 April 1945 By mid-April 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany had become a scene of unimaginable human suffering. Originally established as a prisoner-exchange camp, it became severely overcrowded with tens of thousands of inmates transferred from camps in the east. Rampant malnutrition, typhus epidemics, and extreme unsanitary conditions turned the camp into a deadly place where thousands were dying daily. On 15 April 1945, British force