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Medical Students: At the Camp
The first students arrived at Belsen at the end of April 1945, with the remaining students reaching the camp at the beginning of May 1945. Following a briefing by Meiklejohn on 2 May 1945, they began work at Camp 1 the following day. 5,885 total views
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Charles Kyndt – Medical Student
Charles Kyndt – medical student at Belsen. The London Hospital 6,098 total views
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Guy’s Hospital Medical Students
Guy’s Hospital medical students. 5,963 total views
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Thomas Gibson – Medical Student
During early April a notice appeared in the Medical Schools of the London hospitals asking for twelve volunteers from each to make up a party of a hundred students, whose object would be to treat starvation cases in Holland under the auspices of the Red Cross. 5,374 total views
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James Learmonth Gowans: Medical Student
Sir James Learmonth Gowans CBE FRS FRCP (7 May 1924 – 1 April 2020) was a British physician and immunologist. In 1945 while studying medicine at King’s College Hospital, he assisted at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. 5,642 total views
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Medical Students: Kings College
King’s College Hospital Medical Students. 6,255 total views
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Medical Students: St Mary’s Hospital
St Mary’s Hospital, Medical Students. 6,164 total views
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David Sells Hurwood: Guys Medical Student
In 1945, while still a medical student, David volunteered for service in Europe at Belsen concentration camp. Upon his return it was discovered that he had contracted tuberculosis and at one stage he was not expected to survive. 5,950 total views
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John Reynolds – Medical Student
“It deeply affected him and his trust in human nature,” says Anne Stephenson of her father John Reynolds, one of 95 London medical students who arrived at the notorious Belsen concentration camp in May 1945 to help care for survivors wracked by disease and starvation. 5,893 total views
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John Hankinson, Medical Student
John was born on 10 March 1919 in Ramsbottom in Lancashire and was proud of his half-Irish parentage. After schooling in Thornleigh College, Bolton, he graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in 1946. 5,990 total views
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Alan MacAuslan – Medical Student
While studying at St Thomas’ Hospital, medical student Alan MacAuslan joined a volunteer party of aid relief comprising of medical students from London’s teaching hospitals. 5,812 total views
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