Bel·sen

(bĕl′zən) or Ber·gen-Bel·sen (bĕr′gən-)

A village of northern Germany north of Hanover. It was the site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

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Belsen

(ˈbɛlsən; German ˈbɛlzən)

(Placename) a village in NE Germany: with Bergen, the site of a Nazi concentration camp (1943–45)

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Bel•sen

(ˈbɛl zən)

n.

locality in NW Germany: site of Nazi concentration camp (Bergen-Belsen) during World War II.

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Belsen - a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II

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A HOLOCAUST survivor known as the "Bride of Belsen" after marrying a British officer who liberated her has died aged 95.

The 'Bride of Belsen' Gena dies aged 95

A HOLOCAUST survivor known as the "Bride of Belsen" after marrying a British soldier who liberated her has died at 95.

The 'Bride of Belsen' dies at 95

A holocaust survivor who became known as the Bride of Belsen after marrying a solider who liberated her has died aged 95.

Holocaust survivor known as "Bride of Belsen" after marrying solider who liberated her dies aged 95; Gena Turgel lived through four concentration camps and nursed Anne Frank before behing liberated by the British Army from Belsen in 1945

| Josef Kramer, the Beast of Belsen. The commandant of Auschwitz as well as Belsen, Kramer sent thousands to their deaths in the gas chambers.

They all met their fate at the end of Pierrepoint's rope..

According to Jon Savage in his landmark book, England's Dreaming, when the Pistols played "Belsen Was a Gas," it was an "awful" moment marking the show's downturn.

Today on Jewcy: Notorious punk wore swastikas, but Jews are having the last laugh

After D-Day, John had an extraordinary war campaign while serving with the 116th Light Ack Ack Company, Royal Artillery, and ended up as an official British War Photographer at the Belsen concentration camp.

'Sweet home, I'll come back to you' SOLDIER'S D-DAY POEM SHARED BY GRANDAUGHTER

MEMBERS of the armed forces are being asked to attend the funeral of a World War II veteran who helped liberate the Belsen Nazi death camp.

Help give Hugh hero's send-off; Call goes out for servicemen and women to attend the funeral of WWII veteran and Belsen liberator

After his release he went to live with an aunt in Nottingham, but died from TB, which he had caught in Belsen, the following year later, aged 21.

Brit lad, 19, who was sent to Nazi death camp for taking a soldier's bike on joyride.

Among the files released by the National Archives at Kew, west London, is an application from Harold Le Druillenec, the only British survivor found at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, who went on to give evidence at the Belsen Trials.

Paltry compensation for years of Nazi hell

Tomi lost thirty-five members of his family in the Holocaust, and gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp, as well as the post-war scramble to find a new home and a career.

I Was a Boy in Belsen

Mark Celinscak; DISTANCE FROM THE BELSEN HEAP; University of Toronto Press (Nonfiction: History) 32.95 ISBN: 9781442615700

Distance from the Belsen Heap; Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

Memories of Belsen will be evoked for veterans of the Durham Light Infantry when the Queen visits the former concentration camp during a state visit.

Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Death Camp by British troops documented in new book; Memories of Belsen will be evoked when the Queen visits the former concentration camp during a state visit between June 23-26