2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Real Photo Postcard of the Bergen-Belsen mass grave site with the initial sign erected at the site when British army forces arrived at the camp, and immediately marked the mass graves: "HERE LIE BURIED 5000 BODIES". English and German. Described on the back: "Plaque on one of the mass graves at the Bergen-Belsen camp". The sign was erected by British army forces on April 24, 1945. A few hundred meters away another sign was erected: "Here lie buried 2500 bodies", as well as in the rest of the area adjacent to the camp. The sad thing is that those 5000 were only 10% of all the dead at Bergen-Belsen. Thousands of corpses lay unburied on the camp grounds. Between May 1943 and April 15, 1945, about 37,000 prisoners died in Bergen-Belsen. More than 13,000 former prisoners, too ill to recover, died after liberation. After evacuating Bergen-Belsen, British forces burned down the whole camp to prevent the spread of typhus. In total, approximately 50,000 persons died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp complex including Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Both died in the camp in February or March 1945. Most of the victims were Jews.
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