Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during Nazi-era Germany, near the town of Bergen in northern Germany. British ground forces found some 60,000 prisoners inside the camp; more than 75,000 had died before or would die after the liberation of the camp in April 1945.
“The victims [of the Holocaust] perished not only because of the killers, but also because of the apathy of the bystanders. What astonished us after the torment, after the tempest, was not that so many killers killed so many victims, but that so few cared about us at all.” — Elie Wiesel
…and of course Darfur continues to experience Wiesel’s astonished nightmare of indifference…and for more than twice as many years as the Holocaust…