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Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Practical info

Type of location: Concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Anne-Frank-Platz, 29303 Lohheide

+49 (0) 5051 4759200

http://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/en/home.html

Historical description

The places of the Shoah

The concentration camps situated in the territory of the former GDR (Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald) have been transformed into memorials. The transformation was a way for the Communist regime to tell its own version of the story of Nazi resistance. The victims of the ... Read more