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Sister Emily Harding
Sister Emily Harding, who lived in Preston for more than 25 years, saw at first-hand the sufferings of the death camp inmates. Two weeks after Allied troops moved in, she was posted to a camp in Belsen. 10,700 total views
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Sgt Bert Young of G Company 8th Battalion the Rifle Brigade
On 14 April 1945 my father Sgt Bert Young of G Company 8th Battalion the Rifle Brigade came upon Bergen Concentration camp. 13,328 total views
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Harold ‘Tug’ Wilson C Sqn – 11th Armoured Corp
Harold was a driver in the 2nd Fife and Forbar Yeomany which is an armoured regiment, part of the 11th Armoured Division represented by a black bull on their tanks. 12,728 total views
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Jimmy McHattie – 151 Ayrshire Yeomanry
My Great Granda Jimmy McHattie. 12,463 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. 13,097 total views
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Paul Wyand (Cameraman)
Paul Wyand began his career as a motor mechanic at Brooklands, but was encouraged by his uncle Leslie Wyand , who worked for the American Pathe News, to combine this with taking news photographs to sell through the Sport and General Press Agency. 11,524 total views
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Hadassah Rosensaft (Bimko)
Sunday, May 13, 1945, five days after the end of World War II in Europe, was Mother’s Day in the United States. At Bergen-Belsen in Germany, however, there was nothing for my mother to celebrate on that day as she took part in the ongoing monumental medical and humanitarian effort to save as many of that Nazi concentration camp’s critically ill survivors as possible. 10,950 total views
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Thomas Vernon Tubman – 11th Armoured Division
My grandfather, Thomas Vernon Tubman, army service number 14348540, served in the 11th Armoured Division during WW2. 12,104 total views
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James Kitchener Heath
Adrian Andrews, who lives in Bishop’s Stortford with wife Gunta and their two children, has written a book, A Pithead Polar Bear, about his grandfather’s Second Word War service, including the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 12,120 total views
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Robert McGowan RAMC
My Dad Robert McGowan front left in Belsen (R.A.M.C.) 12,036 total views
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