Category:Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (subject)

The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen occurred on April 15, 1945.

British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. Thousands of bodies lay unburied around the camp and some 60,000 starving and mortally ill people were packed together without food, water or basic sanitation. The British Army immediately began to organize the relief effort.

Around 1,000 children were among the thousands of inmates who arrived at Bergen-Belsen in the last weeks of the war. Conditions were desperate because of hunger and disease. 50% of the children perished (including Anne Frank. Around 500 children were found alive.