In September 1945, Jewish former prisoners of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp built a wooden memorial to commemorate the Jewish victims who died in this camp. On 16 April 1946, the wooden memorial was replaced by a monument made of stone. This is still there. The text on the stone reads: 'Earth conceal not the blood shed on thee’.
Other groups of former prisoners also put up memorials. A large wooden cross was erected for the Polish victims on 2 November 1945. In late 1945, the Soviet Union put up a monument in memory of the approximately twenty thousand Soviet prisoners of war who died there.
