The family had resided in the German city of Belsen throughout the war years running a movie theatre for Nazi officers and officials who oversaw the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

As the concentration camp ceased to exist at this point, the name Belsen after this time refers to events at the Bergen-Belsen DP camp.

While en route to Bergen-Belsen, she and the prisoners stayed temporarily at Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving at Belsen between February 20 – 26, 1945.

Peter was also a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen, though he was transported from there to Auschwitz before Anne and Margot arrived at Belsen.

In the summer of 1943, Stalag XI C ( 311 ) was dissolved and Bergen-Belsen became a branch camp of Stalag XI B.

In April 1943, a part of the Bergen-Belsen camp was taken over by the SS Economic-Administration Main Office ( SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt ; WVHA ).

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was then burned to the ground by flamethrowing " Bren gun " carriers and Churchill Crocodile tanks because of the typhus epidemic and louse infestation.

Meanwhile, his wife, Tilly, was transferred from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she perished.

Although the Kastner train, on which they were passengers, was first re-routed by the Germans to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the Teitelbaums reached Switzerland.

Hauptsturmführer Adolf Haas, who had overseen the camp from its beginning, was transferred to a command position at Bergen-Belsen, while Schutzhaftlagerführer Wolfgang Plaul was transferred to Buchenwald.

During the German occupation of the Netherlands, he was deported to Germany and interned at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

On surrendering he presented his baton to the Commando Brigadier Derek Mills-Roberts, who was so disgusted by what he had seen when liberating the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that he broke the baton over Milch's head.

It was the 1st SAS squadron working with the 11th Armoured Division, who were among the first British troops into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Once the war was over and it was confirmed that Anne Frank had perished in Bergen-Belsen, Gies gave the collection of papers and notebooks to the sole survivor from the Secret Annex, Otto Frank.

Born in Łuniniec ( near Kraków ), Poland, as a young girl Poznańska was associated with the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II, which led to her internment in the Bergen-Belsen prisoner of war camp and her receipt of a war medal following the war.

During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

On trial was Kazimierz Cegielski, a Polish national and former prisoner at Bergen-Belsen who, according to his testimony, had arrived in March 1944.

Auschwitz was liberated, also by the Soviets, on January 27, 1945 ; Buchenwald by the Americans on April 11 ; Bergen-Belsen by the British on April 15 ; Dachau by the Americans on April 29 ; Ravensbrück by the Soviets on the same day ; Mauthausen by the Americans on May 5 ; and Theresienstadt by the Soviets on May 8.

In March 1944, Veil's family was deported, Simone, her mother and one sister, Milou, to Auschwitz-Birkenau then Bergen-Belsen where her mother Yvonne died shortly before the camp's 15 April 1945 liberation.

Dr Phelps stated at the meeting that he thought Dr Kelly was using the Nuremberg Defence, and compared it to the kind of defence used by guards at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Prior to that, his sister Rosa had been arrested during a police raid in Brussels ; she was later killed in Bergen-Belsen.

* Leslie Hardman, British Army chaplain and rabbi, who was among the liberators of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was born in the town.

Georges Valois was finally arrested by the Nazis on 18 May 1944, and died in February 1945 of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

At one point during World War II he was assigned as War Correspondent to the Coldstream Guards unit which liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

He participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was captured by the Nazis and sent to different concentration camps, and was liberated from Bergen-Belsen.

His brother Josef Čapek, a painter and writer, died in the Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Typhus epidemics killed inmates in the Nazi Germany concentration camps ; infamous pictures of typhus victims ' mass graves can be seen in footage shot at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Thousands of prisoners held in appalling conditions in Nazi concentration camps such Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen also died of typhus during World War II, including Anne Frank at the age of 15 and her sister Margot.

It is the overall term for the enforcement bodies established by the Nazi occupiers to manage Jewish communities in German-occupied areas, although the Nazis established the name Ältestenrat in the ghettos of Łódź and Theresienstadt and even in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The song is about one of the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated by British troops in 1945, and was consequently better known in Britain than similar camps in Eastern Europe.

This film contains the testimonies of seven women who were witness to the last months of Anne Frank's life in the Nazi concentration camps, including Hanneli Goslar, a former neighbor of the Franks ; Bloeme Evers-Emden, a classmate of Margot ; and Janny Brilleslijper who buried her in Bergen-Belsen.

After the war a large group of Orthodox Jewish Survivors of the nearby Bergen-Belsen concentration camp settled in Hanover.

Rodger, who had taken the first photographs of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, refused to help Riefenstahl meet Africans, citing their respective backgrounds.

At the end of the war, he took part in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

* 1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

March: Anne Frank dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus

* March – Anne Frank, dies in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Lower Saxony, Germany, of typhus.

* April 15 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

* December 13 – Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ( executed ) ( b. 1906 )

As Reagan visited Germany as part of the G6 conference in Bonn, the pair visited Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 5 May, and more controversially the German military cemetery in Bitburg, discovered to hold 49 members of the Waffen-SS buried there.

Anne and her sister Margot died from typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Benigni's father had spent three years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, and La vita è bella is based in part on his father's experiences.

The symbolic grave of Margot Frank | Margot and Anne Frank at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

They were, like those babies, nearly dead from hunger ..." When Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to allot each German citizen a guaranteed diet of only 1, 000 calories a day and justified this by referring to the fact that the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had received only 800, Gollancz wrote about starvation in Germany, pointing out that many prisoners never even received 1, 000 calories.

Between July 1942 and September 1944, almost every Tuesday a cargo train left for the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau ( 65 train-loads containing 60, 330 people most of whom were gassed on arrival ), Sobibór ( 19 train-loads of 34, 313 people, all of whom were killed on arrival ), Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt ( 9 train-loads of 4, 894 people some 2, 000 of whom survived the war ).

Israel and his mother managed to escape and returned to Warsaw, but within the year, they were both sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Part of the film came from Benigni's own family history ; before his birth Roberto's father had survived three years of internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

As eastern concentration camps were evacuated before the advance of the Red Army, at least 85, 000 people were transported in cattle cars or marched to Bergen-Belsen.