Bergen-Belsen

Israeli speakers stricken from Bergen-Belsen ceremony

The ceremony date was changed with no warning to the survivors of the camp and no Israelis will be allowed to address the audience.

This activist associates Bergen-Belsen with life

At Bergen-Belsen, Menachem Rosensaft, an activist born in DP camp commemorates loss and life.

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President Herzog visits camp his father helped liberate

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier accompanies Israel's President to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Holocaust survivors attend Bergen-Belsen memorial

Memorial event commemorating 77th anniversary of liberation of death camp attended by 60 survivors and their relatives.

Bernard Levy, Jewish liberator of Bergen-Belsen, dies at 96

British Jewish soldier participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

The blessing for eating Chametz on Pesach

I always wondered what God was doing during the Seder at Bergen-Belsen when the Chief Rabbi of Rotterdam instructed Jews to eat chametz.

One of Bergen-Belsen’s last liberators passes away

One of the last living liberators of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has died at the age of 97.

Denying Jewish Inheritance

I once met a survivor who said that whoever was in Bergen Belsen for 10 minutes, can justifiably say Hallel every day in Medinat Yisrael.

Document allowing Holocaust survivors to remarry to be auctioned

Ledger which listed eye-witness accounts of deaths of Jews in Nazi camps to be auctioned. Ledger enabled spouses of those killed to remarry.

There is no Dachau in Texas

Queen Elizabeth Visits Nazi Death Camp for the First Time

British Queen visits Bergen-Belsen in Germany, stopping to see memorial stone to Anne Frank 70 years after British liberation of camp.

Queen Elizabeth to Meet Survivors at Nazi Death Camp

70 years after British forces liberated it, British queen to visit Bergen-Belsen with her husband Prince Philip in state visit to Germany.

German President Thanks Britain for Bergen-Belsen Liberation

President Joachim Gauck lauds British forces who liberated Nazi camp where Anne Frank perished, for 'restoring humanity'.

New Mass Grave Found at Bergen-Belsen

Dutch researchers say they found a new mass grave at former Nazi death camp based on testimony of Holocaust survivors.

Germany to Investigate Suspected Female Nazi Guard

German prosecutors investigating Hilde Michnia who is suspected of being a guard in Bergen-Belsen and Gross-Rosen.