“Overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, and the lack of adequate food, water, and shelter led to an outbreak of diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and dysentery, causing an ever increasing number of deaths. In the first few months of 1945, tens of thousands of prisoners died.”
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Bergen-Belsen.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224
Accessed on 6/12/11.
Women survivors suffering from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. [Photograph #83815]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=13450&search=typhus&index=7
Accessed on 6/12/11.
” American medical personnel at work in a typhus ward in a hospital for Dachau survivors. [Photograph #16951] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1059221&search=typhus&index=5
Accessed on 6/12/11.
Warsaw, Poland, A sign warning of typhus danger area, probably April 1941.
“Overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, and the lack of adequate food, water, and shelter led to an outbreak of diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and dysentery, causing an ever increasing number of deaths. In the first few months of 1945, tens of thousands of prisoners died.”
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Bergen-Belsen.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224
Accessed on 6/12/11.
Women survivors suffering from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. [Photograph #83815]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=13450&search=typhus&index=7
Accessed on 6/12/11.
” American medical personnel at work in a typhus ward in a hospital for Dachau survivors. [Photograph #16951] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1059221&search=typhus&index=5
Accessed on 6/12/11.
Warsaw, Poland, A sign warning of typhus danger area, probably April 1941.