BELSEN HORROR CAMP
BURIAL OF VICTIMS TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND SO FAR LONDON, June 7. The British have so far buried 23,000 persons in Belsen, 10,000 of whom were dead when the camp was liberated. Eleven thousand died before they could be evacuated, and 2000 died after removal to hospital areas, states an Unnra health official. The number of deaths had been reduced by May 22 to 50 a day. Eight of 100 London medical students who went to Belsen became casualties, some of them typhus victims.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 7
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85BELSEN HORROR CAMP Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 7
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