Experience: Typhus

“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.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.

http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/3754303_4020128.html

Accessed on 6/12/11.

Sarah Cwagenberg

Belle Eisenberg

Menachem Glaser

Sam (Anzel) Gun

Franka Iglewicz

Rabbi Moshe Polter

Rosa Schaumberg

“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.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.

http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/3754303_4020128.html

Accessed on 6/12/11.