Prisoners didn't have mattresses, they slept on long blocks of wood.

Women prisoners, suffering from Typhus.

From late 1944, the food rations began to shrink. By 1945, prisoners had to go without food for days; fresh water also in minimal supply.

July 1944, there were about 7,300 prisoners entered into the camp complex at Bergen-Belsen.

At the beginning of December in 1944, the large 7,300 or so had increased into an even larger 15,000 and the following February the number grew to 22,000.

Over the coarse of its existence, the Bergen-Belsen camp held POW's, Jews, political prisoners, "asocial" criminals, Jehovah's witnesses, homosexuals and gypsies.

The prisoner of war (POW) camp functioned as such from 1940 until January in 1945.

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