Germany has inaugurated a new museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp where diarist Anne Frank died. The new exhibition centre at Bergen-Belsen, in the north of Germany, highlights the fates of those who died at the camp during World War II. Among the exhibits are the drawings and diaries of Jews imprisoned there, plus video statements by survivors.

Liberated by Allied troops in 1945 and later razed, Bergen-Belsen began life as a prisoner of war camp. From 1943 until the end of the war it was a concentration camp for Jews, gypsies and homosexuals, with an estimated 125,000 people held there.

Read article (BBC, October 28, 2007)
Go to website Bergen Belsen Memorial

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