Holocaust survivors have gathered at the site of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to commemorate the anniversary of its liberation. More than 72,000 camp inmates and prisoners of war died at the Nazi camp including diarist Anne Frank and her older sister Margot. British soldiers liberated the camp on April 15, 1945. Today, seventy years on, hundreds of people sobbed as they laid flowers and flags as memorials. Scroll down for video Survivor Marie Vaislic from France sits on a mass grave reading '1000 dead rest here' after the ceremony. It was held to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern GermanyAround 200,000 people were deported to the Nazi camp in northern Germany during World War TwoBritish soldiers took over the camp on April 15, 1945 and found tens of thousands of dead bodiesTheir intervention came just two months after diarist Anne Frank, who was held at the camp, died
They were eventually betrayed and sent to _, where she and her sister died.