Nazi camp becomes cemetery

A NAZI labour camp near Berlin where SS guards massacred more than 1,000 inmates over 60 years ago was consecrated yesterday as a Jewish cemetery.

The Lieberose camp, a satellite of the larger Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin, was open from 1943 to February 1945. During that time SS officers shot and killed 1,300 sick and invalid Jewish inmates.

Bodies were first discovered at a grave near Lieberose in 1958, and almost 600 were found in 1971.