Bergen-Belsen, Germany – New Exhibition Center Opens in Former Nazi Concentration Camp

Bergen-Belsen, Germany – A new memorial exhibition center at a former Nazi camp in central Germany reflects the experiences of inmates when it was a prisoner of war facility, a concentration camp and then a holding center for displaced Jews after World War II.

The new center, which opened today, is the first stage in an overall makeover of the Bergen-Belsen camp to more accurately document prisoners’ experiences there. It draws on archive material that came to light in the 1990s, after the end of the Cold War, as well as contributions from around 340 survivors.
The new exhibit contains photographs, prisoners’ records and objects from the camp donated by the survivors themselves, as well as many oral histories from the former inmates.

Some 52,000 Jews and 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war died at Bergen-Belsen. [AP]