Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen, nowadays usually called merely Belsen, was a German concentration camp in the Nazi era. It was in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. It was named after a nearby town called Belsen.

Was there a gas chamber at Belsen?

Most people say not. But this link quotes two witness accounts that say otherwise. These accounts are, in summary:-

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• Moshe Peer. French Jew. Born in France in 1932 or 1933. Arrested in 1942 at age 9. Sent to Belsen 2 years later. 6 attempts to gas him failed because (unlike the other prisoners) he was immune or very resistant to whatever gas was used. An experience even more distressing than with most reports from there. After liberation he moved to Israel where he raised 4 children. He fought in various of Israel's wars. In 1974 he moved to Montreal in Canada.
• Niall Aslen. Son of a British soldier who liberated Belsen; information via his father. The gas chamber was underground. Liberating troops demolished the gas chamber and used the resulting open pit to bury bodies in.