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Memorial - Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen
Lower Saxony, Germany
Gedenkstätte - Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen
Niedersachsen, Deutschland





The Memorial
In late September 1945, the British military government ordered the creation of an appropriate memorial at Bergen-Belsen. The resulting plans for a cemetery-like complex only encompassed the area around the mass graves, however. In the summer of 1946, an international commission which included survivor representatives recommended that an obelisk and an inscription wall be erected in the grounds. The Bergen-Belsen Memorial was finally inaugurated in November 1952 with a state ceremony which attracted international attention. Responsibility for the Memorial was then handed over to the state of Lower Saxony, thus making Bergen-Belsen the oldest state-supported memorial in Germany.



The inscriptions:


Hungary
öRöKKÉ EMLÉKEZVE
A TöBB EZER ÁRTATIANUL MEGHALT MAGYAR HONFITÁRSUNKRA
Eternal memory
of thousands of Hungarian patriots who innocently died.
Denmark
DANMARK
FORGÆVES HAR I IKKE KÆMPET
Denmark
You did not fight in vain.
Czech Republic/Slovakia
"KDO TUDY JDETE, VZPOMEŇTE ZBOŽNĚ
ČESKYCH A SLOVENSKYCH MRTVYCH
ZAHYNULI HELIDSKY, ABY SE ZRODIL LIDŜTĚJŜÍ SVĚT."
Whoever passes here, respectfully remember
the Czechoslovakian dead,
who died inhumanely for a better world.
Sinti
IN TIEFER TRAUER UND TIEFER EHRFURCH
GEDENKEN WIR SINTI (ZIGEUNER)
DER OPFER UNSERES VOLKES.

DURCH IHREN GEWALTSAMEN TOD
SIND SIE DEN LEBENDEN MAHNUNG
ZUM WIDERSTAND GEGEN DAS UNRECHT.
In deep sadness and reverence,
we commemorate the Sinti (Gypsies),
victims of our nation.

By their violent death
are they a vivid example
that we must resist the evil.
The Netherlands
"HET ZWAARST GESCHUT EH'T BEST GEWEER
KAN OP HET SLAGVELD VOORDEEL GEVEN;
HIER HIELP GEEN KRACHT VAN WAPENS HEER,
GEEN STRIJD, HIER LEED EEN VOLK VOOR'T LEVEN."
The heaviest cannon and the best rifle
can be of advantage on the battlefield;
no more helps here a force of arms, no fight,
a nation worried here for it's life.
Belgium
"PATRIA BELGIA MEMOR" "Belgium in memory."
Poland
OFIAROM DRUGIEJ WOJHY ŚWIATOWEJ
1939-1945
MĘCZENNIKOH XX WIEKU
The victims of the Second World War
1939 - 1945
the martyrs of the 20th Century.
Germany
DEN OPFERN DER
NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEN GEWALTHERSCHAFT
For the victims of the
National Socialist tyranny.
Jewish people
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United Kingdom
"To the memory of all those
who died in this place."
Jewish people
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France
ICI ONT ÉTÉ EXTERMINÉS DES MILLIERS DE FRANCAIS
DONT LE SEUL CRIME ÉTAIT D' AIMER LA FRANCE
ET DE NE PAS PARTAGER LES IDÉES DE L'ENVAHISSEUR.
Thousands of French were here exterminated
whose only crime was to love France
and not to share the ideas of the invader.
Norway
NORGE
MERKET DET STEND, UM MANNEN HAN STUPA.
Norway
The memory remains, even if the man falls.
Russia
Советским гражданам погибшим в
фашистскои неволе в 1939 - 1945 г.г.
Вам испытавшим все муки и боли
пытки вдали от отчизны родной,
братъям погибшим в фашистской неволе
вечная памятъ и вечный покой.
БЕЛЬЗЕН 1948 год
The Soviet citizens, who died in
fascist captivity in the years 1941 - 1945.
For you, who rest far from the father land,
all suffering and hurting are at an end.
Eternal remembrance and eternal peace
for the brothers who died during fascist captivity.
Belsen in the year 1948.
Latin/Italy
EXTINCTI IGNOTI NOTIQUE HIC EVANUERUNT
INNOCUI, DIRIS CARNIFICUM MANIBUS.
CRIMINIBUS LASSATA DEI CLEMENTIA VINDEX
SUCCURIT MISERO TANDEM HOMINUM GENERI.

QUI RIPOSANO, NELLA FRATERNITA À DEL DOLORE E
DEL SACRIFICIO, I CADUTI ITALIANI.
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Here rest Italians who were fallen
in fraternity of pain and sacrifice.


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