Experience: Typhus
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“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.
[Photograph #83815]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives.
http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=13450&search=typhus&index=7
http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=13450&search=typhus&index=7
Accessed on 6/12/11.