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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
W. G. Sebald

Meaning of "Belsen" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BELSEN

Belsen  [ˈbɛlsən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BELSEN

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Belsen is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BELSEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Belsen

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas. The camp was later expanded to accommodate Jews from other concentration camps. After 1945, the name was applied to the displaced persons camp established nearby, but it is most commonly associated with the concentration camp. 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. The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 by the British 11th Armoured Division. The soldiers discovered approximately 60,000 prisoners inside, most of them half-starved and seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lying around the camp unburied.

Definition of Belsen in the English dictionary

The definition of Belsen in the dictionary is a village in NE Germany: with Bergen, the site of a Nazi concentration camp.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BELSEN


Abelson
ˈeɪbəlsən
Jolson
ˈdʒəʊlsən
keelson
ˈkɛlsən
kelson
ˈkɛlsən
Mendelssohn
ˈmɛndəlsən
Michelson
ˈmaɪkəlsən
nelson
ˈnɛlsən
Nicholson
ˈnɪkəlsən
Nicolson
ˈnɪkəlsən
Nielsen
ˈniːlsən
Olsen
ˈəʊlsən
telson
ˈtɛlsən
Wilson
ˈwɪlsən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BELSEN

Belshazzar
belt
belt bag
belt course
belt drive
belt loop
belt man
belt out
belt pulley
belt up
belt-and-braces
Beltane

WORDS THAT END LIKE BELSEN

Andersen
chosen
delicatessen
Essen
Hessen
hosen
Jacobsen
Jansen
Jensen
lessen
Leverkusen
loosen
Mommsen
Niedersachsen
Pilsen
Rasmussen
risen
Sachsen
sen
Velsen

Synonyms and antonyms of Belsen in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Belsen» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BELSEN

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贝尔森
1,325 millions of speakers

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Belsen
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Belsen
380 millions of speakers
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بيلسن
280 millions of speakers

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Бельзен
278 millions of speakers

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Belsen
270 millions of speakers

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Belsen
260 millions of speakers

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Belsen
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Belsen
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Belsen
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ベルゼン
130 millions of speakers

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Belsen
85 millions of speakers

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Belsen
85 millions of speakers
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Belsen
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Belsen
75 millions of speakers

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बेलसन
75 millions of speakers

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Belsen
70 millions of speakers

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Belsen
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Belsen
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Бельзен
40 millions of speakers

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Belsen
30 millions of speakers
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Μπέλσεν
15 millions of speakers
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Belsen
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Belsen
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Belsen
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Trends of use of Belsen

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BELSEN»

The term «Belsen» is regularly used and occupies the 103.872 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BELSEN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Belsen

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QUOTES WITH «BELSEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Belsen.
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W. G. Sebald
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELSEN»

Discover the use of Belsen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Belsen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Belsen: The Liberation of a Concentration Camp
The military and medical liberation and British government and British population response to the disclosure of what occurred at Belsen.
Joanne Reilly, 1998
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The Children's House of Belsen:
This is her story; how she as one of the eldest children had to become the ‘Little Mother’ not only taking care of her two brothers but also forty young children living in Barrack 211 known as ‘The Children’s House of Belsen’.
Hetty E. Verolme, 2013
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Diary of Bergen-Belsen
A unique, deeply political survivor's diary of the author's final year inside the notorious concentra camp of Bergen Belsen. Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian socialist and Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust.
Hanna Lévy-Hass, 2009
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Belsen in History and Memory
On the 'forced community' see also Kolb, Bergen-Belsen (1962), pp.69—77; for a valuable general analysis see H.G. Adler, Theresienstaa't 1941—45: Das Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft (Tubingen: Mohr, 1955). . Herzberg, Between Two ...
David Cesarani, Tony Kushner, Jo Reilly, 2013
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After Daybreak: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
This gripping book confronts the terrifying aftermath of war with questions that still haunt us today. From the Hardcover edition.
Ben Shephard, 2007
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Remembering Belsen: eyewitnesses record the liberation
This book contains accounts which should ensure that the horrors of the camp are on the record for posterity and cannot be denied or excused. ..
Ben Flanagan, Donald Bloxham, 2005
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Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg
Jensen highlights the qualities of the speeches that make them, in his estimation, models of presidential discourse and considers the setting for the speeches that doomed them despite their eloquence.
Richard J. Jensen, 2007
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Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and ...
On the evening of 15 April 1945 members of the British Army's Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) accompanying other elements of the 11th Armoured Division entered the camp of Bergen-Belsen. The scenes filmed by the horrified and ...
Toby Haggith, Joanna Newman, 2005
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New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the ...
New Beginnings offers an unprecedented historical inquiry into how Jews in Germany began to rebuild their social and cultural networks immediately following World War II. Lavsky concentrates on the British Zone of occupation in northwest ...
Hagit Lavsky, 2002
10
Belsen 1945: new historical perspectives
This volume brings together essays from international experts based on the 60th anniversary seminar held at the Imperial War Museum in 2005.
Suzanne Bardgett, David Cesarani, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELSEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Belsen is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited, BBC One, review: 'emotional'
As with the Queen's visit to the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany last month, it was a vivid reminder of the importance ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Schindler's List producer to donate Oscar to Yad Vashem
During World War II, Lustig spent two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Most of his family members were murdered in the extermination ... «Ynetnews, Jul 15»
3
The queen visiting Belsen was a significant gesture
For us as proud British Jews, the visit of the Queen and Prince Philip to Bergen-Belsen was deeply significant. I took the opportunity to thank ... «Jewish Chronicle, Jul 15»
4
Queen Elizabeth Visits Bergen-Belsen
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II met with survivors and liberators in a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. The visit to the ... «Forward, Jun 15»
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Queen meets survivors and liberators of Bergen-Belsen
The quiet of Bergen-Belsen belies its unquiet past. Even as the Queen arrived, the stillness of the place seemed little disturbed. This was a ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Belsen remembered: 96-year-old Royal Navy veteran still haunted …
A former Royal Navy test pilot who helped interrogate the commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
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The Queen visits Bergen-Belsen concentration camp – video
The Queen pays her respects at the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration and prisoner-of-war camps, where tens of thousands were killed ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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What a gent! Prince Philip, 94, kneels to pick up fallen posy as he …
... that she will change into a more 'reflective' and sombre outfit for her poignant visit later to the former prisoner of war camp at Bergen-Belsen. «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
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The hero of Belsen I'll be thinking of today
A few years ago, sitting in her garden in Hendon, my mother spoke to a young couple who had come to visit her from Switzerland. The woman ... «The Times, Jun 15»
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Queen lays wreath at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
The Queen has laid a wreath at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany as she paid her respects to the tens of thousands who ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»

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