Tri-Service

Remembering the Liberation of Bergen Belsen

A candlelit service has been held to remember the 53,000 people who were liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the British Army.

Held beside the railway tracks, near Hannover in Germany, where thousands of Jews, Czechs and Poles were dropped from trains before being forced to march to the camp.

The service was also an opportunity to remember the estimated 50,000 people killed in the camp and the 14,000 who couldn't be saved despite the efforts of the liberators.