For many years now, the story of the children in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has been a key aspect of the Memorial’s research and collecting activities. Based on this work, the Memorial is now able to present the situation, the experiences and coping strategies of these child prisoners in some detail. The exhibition will include selected biographies of child survivors from their imprisonment and life after liberation to the present day. Key to this presentation are the over 120 biographical video interviews with child survivors the Bergen-Belsen Memorial has been recording since 1999. Research in other collections and archives also yielded important new findings and brought to light moving pictorial and written documents which were included in the exhibition.
Despite or maybe because of the subject’s emotional impact, very little is known publicly about the fates of children in the concentration camps. This is the first exhibition to extensively cover the topic of children in a Nazi concentration camp to be shown in Germany.
Contributors
Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
An exhibition from the Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Director
Jens-Christian Wagner
Curator
Diana Gring
Exhibition team
Tessa Bouwman
Diana Gring
Thomas Rahe
Jens-Christian Wagner
Further contributions from
Laura Brokmann, Bernd Horstmann, Silvia Rathmann, Klaus Tätzler
Exhibition design and realisation
Studio IT’S ABOUT | Charlotte Kaiser, Nicole Schimkus, Michaela Binder, Sabine Hecher
Exhibition structures
BG 5 | Ben Jander, John Möller
Media design and realisation
verbrüggen av medien| Christoph Verbrüggen
Video production
Bergen-Belsen Memorial | Diana Gring
23produktion | Olaf Markmann
Studio IT’S ABOUT | Charlotte Kaiser, Nicole Schimkus
Video points
Studio IT’S ABOUT | Charlotte Kaiser, Nicole Schimkus, Gregor Blahak
Reproductions
Atelier36 | Annette Kreimeier, Sabine Kelka
Translations
Georg Felix Harsch
Stephen Grynwasser
Web design and commercial graphics
Studio IT’S ABOUT | Charlotte Kaiser, Carla Steinbrenner
Teaching materials
Joachim Kasten, Doreen Krohne, Thomas Rahe