DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen

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Name (Hebrew)
מחנה העקורים ברגן-בלזן
Name (Latin)
DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen
Other forms of name
Displaced Persons Camp Bergen-Belsen
Bergen-Belsen (Displaced persons camp)
Bergen-Belsen DP Camp
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 243184372
Wikidata: Q1154858
Library of congress: no2012131298
OCoLC: oca09316950
DLC: no2012131298
LIBRARY_OF_CONGRESS: 98187241890000041
Sources of Information
  • Musik und Theater im DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen, 2012:t.p. (DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen) p. 4 of cover (Displaced Persons Camp Bergen-Belsen; Bergen-Belsen)
  • Wikipedia, Oct. 3, 2012(Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp was a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II, in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. It was established by British forces near the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The site used abandoned German army Panzer barracks for housing facilities, and after November 1945, Jewish refugees were given their own section. The camp was the largest DP camp in Germany with 11,000 residents in 1946 and the only exclusively Jewish facility in the British sector.)
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum catalog, 6 May 2014(Bergen-Belsen DP Camp)
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Wikipedia description:

Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp was a displaced persons (DP) camp for refugees after World War II, in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. It was in operation from the summer of 1945 until September 1950. For a time, Belsen DP camp was the largest Jewish DP camp in Germany and the only one in the British occupation zone with an exclusively Jewish population. The camp was under British authority and overseen by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) with camp directors that included Simon Bloomberg. Today, the camp is a Bundeswehr barracks, having been a British Army base (see Hohne Station) until 2015.

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