BERLIN — Holocaust survivors and officials gathered Sunday at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany in a solemn ceremony to commemorate the liberation of ...

The vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants recalls how his mother helped save so many children at the Bergen-Belsen camp — and wonders how she ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. At the Imperial War Museum in London, academics and survivors assemble on the occasion ...

On April 15, 1945, the 11 th British Armoured Division walked through the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, located 60 km north east of the city of Hannover in western Germany. On April 11th, ...

Seventy years ago today, the British Army entered the infamous camp. In the spring of 1945, with Germany near defeat, Heinrich Himmler countermanded Hitler’s order to kill the remaining ...

(JTA) – One might not associate the term “concentration camp” with life. But that is exactly how Menachem Rosensaft views Bergen Belsen. For it was here, in the displaced persons camp set up after ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (FOX 13) - She was defined by only a number. Her body was covered in lice and she hadn’t eaten in days. She had come face to face with one of the Nazi's cruelest SS officers, Josef ...

Queen Elizabeth II is to visit the site of Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen during her state visit to Germany next month. The 89-year-old monarch and her husband Prince Philip will visit what ...

A much‑loved Second World War veteran has celebrated his 100th birthday with a series of heartfelt tributes recognising his ...

It was in the displaced persons camp set up after World War II that Menachem Rosensaft, a longtime activist for Holocaust remembrance, was born. One might not associate the term “concentration camp” ...

Menachem Rosensaft of the World Jewish Congress doesn’t remember the camp, but says it’s where his parents “returned to being human beings” after the war. (JTA) – One might not associate the term ...