Video: 'Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp — Footage from Liberation // Colorized & Restored'

(Sunday, April 15, 1945, afternoon Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 60,000 (mostly sick) prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle, were liberated today by British and Canadian troops.

Video: 'Memory of the Camps (full documentary) | FRONTLINE' (Bergen-Belsen liberated at 4:02)

From 1941 to 1945, almost 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war and a further 50,000 inmates died there, with up to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945, shortly before and after the liberation (including diarist Anne Frank, 15, and her older sister Margot Frank, 19).

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