Eighty years who survived and families remember the horrors of the camp

There are rumors. There were aerial photos. There were written testimony of several shoots. But it was necessary to release for the opening of the shocking reality of the Nazi concentration camps.

Nowhere, this was no more precise than when British and Canadian troops advanced to Bergen-Belsen camp near Hanover in April 1945.

A truce with local German commanders allowed them to enter without a fight. They were met with a stomach containing a stomach of death, a bizarre panorama of human suffering.

The troops estimated that there were 13,000 unwavering corpses. Another 60,000 depleted, patients, spectral survivors stood and lay among them.

On Sunday, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of BelSen’s liberation, more than a thousand survivors and families will attend events in the camp.

“For me, Belsen was the highest blasphemy,” wrote one British soldier Michael Benin, who became a famous entertainer after the Second World War.

Other chroniclers, filmmakers and diarrots fought to convey the scenes that made unwanted invades in their mind.

Richard Dimblebby BBC became the first television blower to enter the camp shortly after his release. In his landmark broadcast, he included the words: “This day was the most terrible in my life.”

Beltsen’s student soon stood out not only from the cold bright accounts of journalists, soldiers and photographers whose testimony was sent around the world, but because he was found with all his grotesque.

Other camps are further east, such as the death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz, or were destroyed by the Germans to hide their crimes before Soviet success, or emptied their prisoners.

In Beltsen, huts, barracks, evidence, remained.

In Beltsen there were witnesses, criminals, victims.

It was there that many of these prisoners of the Eastern concentration were. The overcrowding led to dysentery, malnutrition and typhus.

There was no gas chamber in Beltsen. It was Nazi cruelty and incompetence that made 500 deaths a day when the camp survived.

And most of them came in the last weeks of the war, as well as in April 1945.

As the third Reich collapsed, and Liberty came to those who occupy other occupied territories, dying in Belsen: from 50,000 to 70,000 people, over 30,000 those who were from January to April 1945.

About 14,000 prisoners were killed after being released, their digestive system is unable to cope with high calorie, rich, food offered by well -known cooks and doctors.

The vast majority were Jews, with Soviet prisoners of war, synths and homosexuals among other groups that were covered by the horrors of the camp.

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Among those who survived the relatives attending the event on Sunday are 180 British Jews. Their journey is organized by Ajex, the Jewish Military Association.

The wreaths will be laid by AJEX veterans, as well as dignitaries, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Reener.

The psalm will be read by the main rabbi of the UK, Sir Yafrem Mirvis.

They will do this against the background of the green environment of the lower Saxony, where the towers, fences and buildings went.

All because, after all, British soldiers decided to burn the huts in Beltsen.

And so today, there is little remaining. Visitors Center is a coordinating center near where a handful of memorial stones and crosses was erected.

The inscription on one is read 5000 deaths rest here – 5000 dead are resting here.

This is just one of the graves, one of the memories that pursues the grassy landscape.