them from Belsen, emigrated there legally. By March 1949, the population was down to 4,500. The DP camp at Belsen was closed in September 1950 and the remaining 1,000 people transferred to Upjever near Wilhelmshaven. This camp in turn was closed in August 1951. The majority of former Belsen DPs emigrated to the State of Israel. Many others went to the US (over 2,000) or Canada (close to 800), a minority decided to stay in Germany and helped to rebuild the Jewish communities there. See also London medical students at Belsen References Ha-Dimah (The Tear), by Rafael Olewski, published by Irgun She'erit Hapleta Bergen-Belsen Be-Israel, Tel-Aviv, 1983. External links British Policy Toward East European Refugees in Germany and Austria, 1945-1947, by Arieh J. Kochavi The activity of Rabbi Hermann Helfgott in the camp in Yad Vashem website Video footage of a 1947 demonstration in the camp Further reading Angelika Konigseder and Juliane Wetzel: Waiting for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany, Northwestern University Press, February 2001, . Notes This article incorporates text from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has been released under the GFDL. Displaced persons camps in the aftermath of World War II Celle (district) Bergen, Lower Saxony