Bergen-Belsen, located on Lünenberg Heath 45 miles south of Hamburg, was the first concentration camp to be liberated by British troops who were not at all prepared for what they found there.

Around 70,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen camp. The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby told Witness History how his father broke down recording the report and why the BBC were at first reluctant ...

The deeply affecting first episode of the docuseries sets this singular event in context, providing background on the ...

Playwright Alan Bennett, who, at 11, saw the newsreel about the camp’s liberation, said Bergen-Belsen “was not a name one ever forgot and became a place of horror long before Auschwitz.” ...

Following a recent visit by Her Majesty the Queen to the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, author David Lowther recalls the role soldiers from the Durham Light Infantry played in its ...

On Monday, April 15, 1945, the 79th day of liberation of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany by the British Army is marked. April 15th was designated as the most ...

Richard Dimbleby describes the scenes of almost unimaginable horror that greeted him as he toured Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation by the British in April 1945. Bergen-Belsen ...

His task: to see if the Allies would exchange 10,000 trucks for 1 million ... The train traveled on to Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany where those on board stayed for up to six months before the ...

Remarkably, they managed to exchange some letters ... her fate either during an eight-day death march or at the Bergen-Belsen ...

Seventy five years after its liberation, Jonathan Dimbleby returns to the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany - where his father Richard revealed for the first time the horrors of ...

Her journey to the Bergen- Belsen grounds serves as the springboard for exploring issues and themes of memory. Voices of leading scholars and educators contribute to this unique program on the ...

Three generations of the family of a Holocaust survivor will visit an Oxfordshire museum on the eve of the anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Descendants of ...