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In August 1944 a new section was created and this became the so-called " women's camp ".

By November 1944 this camp received around 9, 000 women and young girls.

Most of those who were able to work stayed only for a short while and were then sent on to other concentration camps or slave-labour camps.

The first women interned here were Poles, arrested after the failed Warsaw Uprising.

Others were Jewish women from Poland or Hungary, transferred from Auschwitz.

Among those who never left Bergen-Belsen were Margot and Anne Frank, who died here in March 1945.