Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath gptkb:Bergen-Belsen_trial
arrest of camp guards
burning of camp to prevent disease
mass graves dug by British soldiers
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Bergen-Belsen_Memorial
15 April (annual remembrance)
gptkbp:country gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:date 15 April 1945
gptkbp:diseasesPresent tuberculosis
starvation
dysentery
typhus
gptkbp:documentedIn gptkb:British_Army_Film_and_Photographic_Unit
gptkb:Richard_Dimbleby
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
gptkbp:liberatedBy gptkb:British_Army
gptkbp:location gptkb:Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp
gptkbp:notableLiberator gptkb:Brigadier_H._L._Glyn_Hughes
gptkb:Major_Leonard_Berney
gptkbp:notableSurvivor gptkb:Simone_Veil
gptkb:Hannah_Goslar
gptkb:Margot_Frank
Anne Frank
gptkbp:notableVictim gptkb:Jadwiga_Dzido
gptkb:Fania_Fénelon
gptkb:Irma_Grese
gptkb:Marceline_Loridan-Ivens
gptkb:Josef_Kramer
gptkb:Margot_Frank
gptkb:Irène_Némirovsky
gptkb:Eliezer_Gruenbaum
gptkb:Hannah_Levy-Hass
Anne Frank
Léon Blum's wife Jeanne Blum
gptkbp:numberOfDeathsAfterLiberation approximately 13,000
gptkbp:numberOfPrisoners approximately 60,000
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:resultedIn international media coverage
exposure of Nazi atrocities
medical intervention for survivors
gptkbp:witnessedBy British soldiers
survivors
war correspondents
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:1945_in_Germany
gptkb:British_11th_Armoured_Division
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6