Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen

The infamous Belsen concentration camp, liberated by British forces in 1945, is now a memorial site with a comprehensive visitor centre. Today, only the sombre mounds of mass graves remain along with various monuments to those who died; the original camp was razed by the British after its survivors had been rescued and, in most cases, temporarily housed in the nearby barracks of Lager Hohne. The suffering of Anne Frank and her diary are associated worldwide with the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, and at the site there's a memorial gravestone of Anne and her sister Margot. See also Holocaust remembrance.

Address

Anne-Frank-Platz,29303 Lohheide

Getting there

10 minutes from Bergen, just south of the village of Belsen

Hours

Closed · opens 10 am tomorrow

Weekly hours

Mon	10 am–6 pm
Tue	10 am–6 pm
Wed	10 am–6 pm
Thu	10 am–5 pm
Fri	10 am–5 pm
Sat	10 am–5 pm
Sun	10 am–5 pm

Website

bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de (opens in a new tab)