Bergen-Belsen

[ German ber-guhn-bel-zuhn; English bur-guhn-bel-suhn ]

noun

1. Belsen.

Example Sentences

Her family was arrested in August 1944 and she died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in February 1945.

From Seattle Times

Anne and her sister Margot were eventually deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died in 1945.

From Seattle Times

His father went to an exhibition of the shocking first photographs to emerge from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after it was liberated by British troops in April 1945.

From BBC

Days earlier, the Nazis had marched most of Ahlem’s surviving prisoners to Bergen-Belsen, but my grandfather hid in the tunnel where he had been forced to chisel rock for 20 hours a day.

From Slate

The exhibit tells the story of Anne Frank, of her childhood in Frankfurt, Germany, her family’s immigration to Amsterdam, their two years of hiding in a secret annex, their discovery by the Nazis, Anne’s death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and her father’s publication of her now famous diary.

From Seattle Times