A Community of Survivors: Bergen-Belsen as a Jewish Bergen-Belsen as a Jewish

This process also affected overall Jewish demographics in the British Occupation Zone. When the situation became more stable and the number of Jews there declined to 20,000, Belsen's 10,000-12,000 DPs comprised more than half the Jewish population of the Zone. As for the others, between 4,000 and 5,000 were German Jews in the newly established communities of Hamburg, Cologne, Duesseldorf and Hannover and the rest were scattered in

small camps or assembly centres near or in towns such as Lingen, Lueneburg, Diepholz, Neustadt, Luebeck, Celle, Kaunitz, Hanover, Hamburg and Brunswick.5