Our work
The "Research and Documentation" department works on projects, publications and exhibitions on the history of Bergen-Belsen. In this way, it contributes to research into National Socialism, its crimes and its short and long-term consequences. In doing so, it helps to close the gaps that still exist in the historiography.
The department connects the Bergen-Belsen Memorial with other memorial sites and researchers, but also with the public. The department's team looks after and advises guests from all over the world and deals with their enquiries. These include survivors of Nazi persecution, other witnesses and their families and the relatives of the victims. However, the department also advises researchers such as historians and journalists, students, regional researchers and others, such as interested individual visitors, other archives, memorials and museums.
The department is divided into the sections of archives and documentation, media and interviews, register of names and specialisations, and library. Together, they exert academic responsibility for the permanent exhibition.