D-Day Remembrance - A Canadian Honours His Father
Courseulles-sur-Mer is the town overlooking Canada’s Juno Beach
https://www.junobeach.org/events/ceremonie-commemorative-canadienne/
Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, Germany, established as a prisoner-of-war camp in 1940 and converted to a concentration camp by the SS in 1943. It became infamous for the extreme overcrowding, starvation, and disease—particularly typhus, typhoid, and dysentery—that killed an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 inmates, including Anne and Margot Frank, who died there in early 1945.
The camp was liberated by British forces on April 15, 1945, when soldiers discovered approximately 60,000 starving and mortally ill prisoners and thousands of unburied bodies. Although there were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen, the conditions were lethal, leading to the camp's burning to prevent disease spread and its subsequent replacement by the largest Jewish displaced persons camp in the British occupation zone, which operated until 1950.
Remembrance
June 6, 1944 - Marked the launch of Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious invasion in history, where Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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