“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

Accessed on 6/12/11.

[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.

 

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/3754303_4020128.html

Accessed on 6/12/11.