Photograph of the Bergen-Belsen mass grave site with the initial sign erected at the site when British army forces arrived at the camp, and immediately marked the mass graves: "HERE LIE BURIED 5000 BODIES". English and German.
Described on the back: "Sign on one of the mass graves at the Bergen-Belsen camp". The sign was erected by British army forces on April 24, 1945. A few hundred meters away another sign was erected: "Here lie buried 2500 bodies", as well as in the rest of the area adjacent to the camp. The sad thing is that those 5000 were only 10% of all the dead at Bergen-Belsen. In that area 5000 bodies were buried whose loved ones never received a private tombstone. (Divided on the back for use as a postcard).
14.5x10.5 cm. Very good condition.
