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Special exhibition Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

 

An exhibition of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation

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The special exhibition Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp tells the story of the around 3,500 children under 15 who were imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Based on individual life stories, the exhibition presents the specific conditions under which children lived in the Bergen-Belsen camp and the ways in which they tried to cope with them. Topics covered range from family life and games through roll-calls and violence to fear, hunger, disease and death. The exhibition also touches on less well-known aspects such as births in the camp. The relief measures taken for surviving children after the liberation and full biographies of child survivors also get their own exhibition sections. A final section is dedicated to the around 600 children who lost their lives in the Bergen-Belsen camp.

The exhibition approaches its subject from multiple perspectives and is based on a broad range of images and documents including prisoners’ diaries, drawings and photographs, autobiographical accounts and documentary footage and audio recordings made only a few days after the liberation. At its core are previously unreleased excerpts from video interviews with child survivors of the Bergen-Belsen camp. They give an insight into the specific experiences of children in the camp and the ways in which they reacted to the conditions of their imprisonment.

Upcoming events

The events listed below are all exclusively in German.

Exhibition venues

Luftbildaufnahme vom Gelände der KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme
3rd April until 26th Juni 2022

KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme

Jean-Dolidier-Weg 75, 21039 Hamburg

https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/

Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen
16 April until 30 September 2018

Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen

Anne-Frank-Platz, 29303 Lohheide

bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de

Museum Lüneburg
16th April until 15th August 2021

Museum Lüneburg

Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 21335 Lüneburg

http://www.museumlueneburg.de/

Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum St. Gallen (Schweiz)
12 April until 29 September 2019

Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum St. Gallen (Schweiz)

Museumsstraße 50, CH-9000 St. Gallen (Schweiz)

http://www.hmsg.ch/

Deutsch-Luxemburgisches Schengen-Lyzeum
10. Oktober bis 6. Dezember 2019

Deutsch-Luxemburgisches Schengen-Lyzeum

Auf dem Sabel 2, 66706 Perl

www.schengenlyzeum.eu

Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück
13 October 2018 until 31 March 2019

Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück

Straße der Nationen, 16798 Fürstenberg/Havel

https://www.ravensbrueck-sbg.de/

Exhibition booklet

Around 3,500 children under 15 were among the around 120,000 people from all over Europe who were imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Many of these children died of hunger, disease or physical violence. Those who survived carried the burden of their physical and mental suffering for the rest of their lives.

The exhibition booklet documents substantial parts of the exhibition. Based on some individual life stories, the specific conditions under which children lived in the Bergen-Belsen camp and the ways in which they tried to cope with them are presented. The relief measures taken for surviving children after the liberation and full biographies of child survivors also get their own sections.

The exhibition booklet (in German and English) is available in both the memorial’s bookshop and the webshop as well as in bookstores.

Editor: Jens-Christian Wagner
Cover: paperback
Page count: 68
ISBN: 978-3-946-99104-5 (English version) and
978-3-946-99103-8 (German version)
Publisher: Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, Celle
Year: 2018
Price: 5,00 €

Teaching materials

The teaching materials are exclusively in German.

Anhand von biografischen und thematischen Zugängen sollen mit diesen pädagogischen Materialien am Beispiel Bergen-Belsens Einblicke in die spezifische Lebenssituation von Kindern in den Konzentrationslagern ermöglicht werden.

Die thematische Auswahl der Quellen orientiert sich an existentiellen Erfahrungs- und Handlungsfelder durch die zugleich eine Brücke geschlagen wird zwischen der heutigen Erfahrungswelt der SchülerInnen und der Situation und dem Verhalten von Kindern in den NS-Konzentrationslagern.

Inhalt

  • Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerheft mit didaktischen Hinweisen
  • Historische Einführungstexte
  • Materialkarten für die Arbeit mit Quellen
    (Text- und Bilddokumente)

The teaching materials (in German language) is available in both the bookshop and the webshop.

Editor: Joachim Kasten, Doreen Krohne and Thomas Rahe with contributions from Tessa Bouwman and Diana Gring
ISBN: 978-3-946-99105-2
Publisher: Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, Celle
Year: 2018
Price: 29,00 €

Photo gallery

Impressions from the exhibition opening in Perl, Deutsch-Luxemburgisches Schengen-Lyzeum. Photographer: Thorsten Cassuben, Diana Gring, Alexander Pitzius

Impressions from the exhibition opening in St. Gallen, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum (Switzerland). Photographer: Michael Elser

Impressions from the exhibition opening in Ravensbrück. Photographer: Britta Pawelke

Impressions from the exhibition opening in Bergen-Belsen. Photographer: Helge Krückeberg, Jesco Denzel

Special exhibition Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

  • Anne-Frank-Platz, 29303 Lohheide
  • kibb@stiftung-ng.de

Gefördert von der Bundesbeauftragten für Kultur und Medien aufgrund eines Beschlusses des Deutschen Bundestages sowie von der Klosterkammer Hannover.


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