Belsen: Our Story

The untold story of one of history’s most devastating crimes — told by those who lived it.

All that remains of Bergen-Belsen today is a quiet grassy meadow. This film ensures what happened there is never forgotten.

Belsen: Our Story is a feature documentary telling the untold story of the infamous concentration camp where over 50,000 people, mostly Jews, died primarily from starvation and disease in the last phase of World War Two. Unlike the infamous extermination camps such as Auschwitz or Treblinka, Belsen had no gas chambers. Instead, prisoners were slaughtered by systematic neglect — starved to death or left to succumb to typhus, tuberculosis, and dysentery, diseases that ravaged the camp due to the absence of clean water and basic sanitation. When Allied troops finally arrived, the scenes that greeted them were so catastrophic that the British army felt compelled to burn Bergen-Belsen to the ground — reducing much of the evidence of Nazi crimes to ash.

Featuring remarkable interviews with some of the last remaining survivors of the Holocaust, alongside the testimony of their British liberators, Belsen: Our Story captures this history with a power and intimacy that only first-hand testimony can achieve. At a moment when living memory of the Holocaust is slipping beyond reach, this film stands as an essential and deeply human act of witness.