Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Bergen-Belsen Memorial is a museum in Lower Saxony, Germany. Bergen-Belsen Memorial is situated nearby to Anne-Frank-Platz, as well as near the cemetery Massengrab für 2500 Tote.Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: Memorial of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in the Lüneburg Heath
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Schloss Bredebeck.
Schloss Bredebeck
Castle
Schloss Bredebeck was built in 1901/1902 by a farmer, Herr Hellberg. It is actually a manor house in terms of its size and function. The house is located in woodland in the German state of Lower Saxony between the former villages of Hörsten and Hohne, which disappeared in the 1930s in the wake of the establishment of Bergen-Hohne Training Area. Schloss Bredebeck is situated 3½ km northwest of Bergen-Belsen Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bergen-Belsen Memorial and Walle.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp.
Walle
Village
Walle is a village and Ortschaft of the municipality of Winsen in Celle district, Lower Saxony, on the Lüneburg Heath in Germany. Walle is situated 2½ km southeast of Bergen-Belsen Memorial.
Belsen
Village
Photo: Losch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Belsen is a village within the German borough of Bergen in the northern part of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. The village, whose original site lies about 3 kilometres southwest of Bergen, has 331 inhabitants. Belsen is situated 3½ km northeast of Bergen-Belsen Memorial.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial
- Categories: memorial, tourist destination, documentation center, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.75908° or 52° 45′ 33″ northLongitude
9.91181° or 9° 54′ 43″ eastOpen location code
9F4FQW56+JPOpenStreetMap ID
way 27296473OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q1235191
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Bergen-Belsen Memorial” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Documentatiecentrum kamp Bergen-Belsen”
- French: “Dokumentationszentrum KZ Bergen-Belsen”
- German: “Dokumentationszentrum KZ Bergen-Belsen”
- German: “Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen”
- Indonesian: “Bergen-Belsen Memorial”
- Italian: “Dokumentationszentrum KZ Bergen-Belsen”
- Spanish: “Dokumentationszentrum KZ Bergen-Belsen”
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