Where was Bergen-Belsen?
Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp located in northern Germany. Bergen-Belsen was established in April 1943 as a detention camp for prisoners who were to be exchanged with German imprisoned in Allied countries. Bergen-Belsen was a camp with five sub-camps: 1. The Prisoner Camp; 2. The Special Camp for Jews with special documents; 3. The Neutral Camp for 350 Jews from neutral countries; 4. The Star Camp for Jewish prisoners, wearing Star of David patches, to be traded as political prisoners, most of these prisoners were from the Netherlands; 5. The Hungarian Camp for 1,648 Hungarian Jews who were allowed to leave Hungary and who eventually reach safety in Switzerland. In August of 1944, a women’s camp was added. Anne and Margot Frank were put in the ‘star’ sub-camp with almost no living facilities. They both died of typhus and starvation during February-March 1945.
