On Monday, Professor Menachem Rosensaft, who was born in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, was appointed chairman of the Advisory Board of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation. Although the Foundation maintains contact with over 100 survivors on account...

27 January—the day on which, in 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp—has been the day of remembrance for all victims of National Socialism in Germany for 25 years.

On this day of remembrance, memorial...

The special exhibition Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp tells the story of the around 3,500 children under 15 who were imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Based on individual life stories, the exhibition presents the...

Where in present-day Lower Saxony were places of Gestapo terror located? Which buildings did the political police use during National Socialism? Where did the Secret State Police have its headquarters and detention centres? How did transport services...

In light of the spread of the coronavirus in Germany and the associated travel restrictions in many countries, most survivors will not be able to attend the ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp....

In front of everyone's eyes: state-ordered terror. In the days around 9 November 1938, many in Germany participated in the worst riots against the Jewish population since the Middle Ages - synagogues in flames, devastation, looting, arrests,...

The Leaflet Documentation Centre Cemetery Historical Grounds of the Camp Bergen-Belsen is now available for download in Dutch, Polish and Russian: Information flyer

In a private initiative Ron Chaulet is seeking help and assistance to raise a monument in Farsleben. You can find more on his project on www.13april1945.com and we are happy to spread information on it.

Farsleben is a village near Magdeburg where...

The memorial has been working on the development of digital accesses to the history of this place for several years. In 2012, during the 60th anniversary of the memorial in cooperation with the SPECS research group of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, the...

The Bergen-Belsen Memorial is repeatedly confronted with the question of where the people who died in the concentration camp were buried. One reason for this inquiry from visitors is that the total number of victims is estimated to be around 52,000,...