50,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from poor sanitary conditions, lack of food, shelter and water, and an outbreak of diseases. The concentration camps held Jews, Poles, Soviets, Dutch, Czechs, Germans, and Australians. All the information in this article is from “I saw Anne Frank die” by Irma Sonnenberg, and “Bergen-Belsen” from the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bergen-Belsen was a death camp, because of the terrible living conditions and the many diseases. It wasn’t and extermination camp, but it killed plenty of people. First, about the diseases, there was an outbreak of typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and dysentery. The diseases first popped up because of the inferior sanitary state of the camp, then the diseases,
