The Theatre Tent Cemetery

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In the four weeks following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the British Army evacuated around 29,000 survivors to the nearby barracks complex and set up an emergency hospital in several of the barracks buildings with the help of civilian relief organisations. Thousands of liberated prisoners died there of the effects of their imprisonment. A special cemetery was established for these victims at the edge of the barracks complex. Because it was located near a large tent used for theatre performances, it was referred to as the “theatre tent cemetery”. By the end of 1945, around 4,500 Jews and gentiles from many different countries were buried in this cemetery. The dead from the Jewish DP camp were also buried there until 1950.
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