Bergen-Belsen and the tragic events...

Category: Genocide

Bergen-Belsen was authorized in April 1943 and at first it was to be occupied by prisoners of war but the rooms had to be made suitable for when the Jews would be coming. The Bergen-Belsen location was later turned into 8 separate concentration camps. October 6th, 1944 Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were sent to Bergen-Belsen from Auschwitz at which they were separated from the rest of their family and friends. A month later, November, in order to hide Nazi war crimes, the demolition of the crematoria at Auschwitz begins. From January 1945 and on the evacuation of thousands of prisoners from the camps experience extreme overcrowding of the camp which begins the mass deaths of the prisoners. Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other during February/March of 1945 but it still isn't known from what they exactly passed away from. The other friends that stayed in hideout with them also passed away in the months to come. Otto arrives in Amsterdam, where he is reunited with Miep and Jan Gies. He concentrates on finding Anne and Margot & later receives a letter telling him that his daughters died at Bergen-Belsen.


From April to November of 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide, Germany surrenders, and the war
ends in Europe. The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals begin as well.