The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Welcome this new archive relating and dedicated to the men and women service personnel and the part they played at the Liberation and subsequent Humanitarian Effort of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp.
UPDATE: 15th April, 2025. 80th Anniversary.
Thank you to everyone for submitting a name/details to coincide with the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen Belsen – we’ll go through all your submissions, moderate and add them on. If you have a photo or any more details please email us. Thank you.
liberator@belsen.co.uk

We are now inviting any relatives of service personnel who may have been at the camp to get in touch. Any regiment, service, nationality, volunteer or any snippet of information – we would like to hear from you. We do not believe there are any records of the diverse group of men and women, many completely untrained, who were involved with the camp, after it’s liberation.

Those That Served

Bergen Belsen Memorial

Despite the annual britishness tweets of the liberation of Belsen, there is no memorial at the site for all the Read more

Stanley Richard Phillips

My father told me he was driving either the first or second truck that entered Belsen. He was belonging to Read more

Jack Marcovitch - Canadian Jewish News.

Jack Marcovitch (1923-1994) was born in Montreal, Canada. His original page can be found HERE. In 2025, for the 80th Read more

Bernard Levy

Bernard Levy, a corporal in the British Military Government at the time, returned to Bergen-Belsen with Presenter Natasha Kaplinsky and Read more

The Signwriter at Belsen

Hello welcome this website section relating to the DLI and the part they played at Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945. Read more

Kenneth Edmund Clokey

Captain Kenneth Clokey was studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, London, when war broke out and he enlisted to fight. On Read more

75th Anniversary Press - James Heath

Adrian Andrews, who lives in Bishop's Stortford with wife Gunta and their two children, has written a book, A Pithead Read more

Harry Skeggs - 32 CSS

The funeral of Harry Skeggs, a committed and engaged member of St Catherine’s congregation for over sixty years, took place Read more

32nd Casualty Clearing Station

Breakdown of personnel for a Casualty Clearing Station. The Casualty Clearing Station (from 1942): A Lieutenant-Colonel's Command 7 Surgeons/medical officers Read more

Sydney Gottlieb

General practitioner who became a leading psychiatrist to jazz musicians, actors, and writers. Syd came to England from South Africa Read more

Paula Mandell

“A photo of my late Grandmother, Paula Mandell, after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen.” Says Michael V. Gruber “We recently found Read more

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This site will progress and I’d encourage anyone with any info to get in touch. My granddad, Reg Price served with the 113th Durham Light Infantry*, as part of 369 Battery. As a signwriter, he produced this sign…

And this was kept in the family for years – so for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Belsen in 2020, subsequent VE Day and VJ Day, I thought it’s about time I’d try to find out more about Reg – his comrades (many of which are names, simply written on the back of photos), what they did together and for a way to remember them all, properly.
Read here about The Heroes of Belsen.

*Just 113th Durham Light Infantry? No we are interested in all Service and Medical personnel who took part during the humanitarian effort at Belsen Concentration Camp. Their roles and names are largely forgotten, as many were too horrified to ever speak of what they had to do, so this archive seeks to form a tribute to ALL those that were there, to find out more and to remember them.
If you have a relative, or any info, on the relief effort at Belsen, we’d love you to please get in touch. Email us: liberator@belsen.co.uk – Thank you

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UPDATE: 2025. Apologies for the ridiculous amount of Google adverts within the site. We are looking into changing this, to a more appropriate level. That said, the adverts do generate income to keep this site going.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Any 113th Durham Light Infantry friends or family are encouraged to get in touch via 113th@belsen.co.uk

** In 1938 the old 5th Battalion DLI changed its role to Searchlights and then in 1940 to Anti-Aircraft. This 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment went to Normandy in June 1944 and joined the advance into Germany in early 1945.
Official designation – Brigade: 100 AA • Division: 30 Corps. • Unit: 113 LAA Regt. RA (DLI) TA.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp
Names of British soldiers who liberated Belsen

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