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Lüneburg (dpa / lni) - The Lüneburg Museum is showing the exhibition "Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp", which has been postponed due to the corona, from next Friday (April 16) to August 15.
“It's one of the most important exhibitions we've had so far,” says museum director Heike Düselder.
"She tells quietly and carefully, is not intended to arouse dismay."
There are also photos of Anne Frank, but the girl who died shortly before the end of the war does not play a prominent role in the exhibition.
In the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp there were around 3500 children under the age of 15 among the approximately 120,000 people imprisoned from almost all European countries.
Most of the children were persecuted as Jews, others belonged to the Sinti and Roma group or had been imprisoned with their mothers for political reasons.
“Many were born there, most did not survive.
But the survivors say they haven't forgotten.
The impressions must have been very clear, »says Düselder.
Many children died of hunger, disease, epidemics and violence.
In addition to many photos, especially those taken by the British occupation soldiers during the liberation in April 1945, there are memorabilia such as a knitted doll or a single children's shoe.
The exhibition has its home in the Bergen-Belsen memorial and was actually planned for March to May 2020 in the Hanseatic city.
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It will open online on Thursday (April 15th) at 6:00 p.m.
Celino Bleiweiss, survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, is brought in as a contemporary witness.
Online registration for the museum visit is desirable, 80 people are allowed in at the same time.
"This is an excellent didactic exhibition, but it is a difficult subject," emphasizes the chairwoman of the Lüneburg Museum Foundation.
It is particularly suitable for school classes.
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Exhibition in the Lüneburg Museum
Children in Bergen-Belsen