Belsen Concentration Camp
Alex Colville · 1945
Why it's great
A quiet field with open pits near the huts of Bergen-Belsen shows the horror of the Nazi concentration camp, which British and Canadian troops reached in April 1945. Alex Colville, a Canadian war artist, painted what he saw there, and the painting is a record of the Holocaust.
🏛️ Part of history
World War II (1939–1945) — A quiet field with open pits near the huts of Bergen-Belsen shows the horror of the Nazi concentration camp, which British and Canadian troops reached in April 1945.
Where to see it
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Alex Colville was a Canadian painter born in Toronto in 1920. He was an official Canadian war artist in World War II, painting the Netherlands and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and later became famous for calm, mysterious pictures. He lived in Nova Scotia and died in Wolfville in 2013.
