• Vernon James Evans

    Liberation of the camp. Pass issued on 29 July 1945 (filed aside) and photo taken with freed inmates. Vernon in the middle of photo  107 total views

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    Gilbert King, 249 Battery (Oxford Yeomanry) RA

    There were tears as the Jewish men and women once held at the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany met Gilbert King, 96, who is one of only three former soldiers still alive of those who took the camp for the Allies in April 1945.  129 total views

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    Harold Burgh (REME)

    Harold Burgh, World War II veteran and former warrant officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.  127 total views

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  • Burning the Huts

    Stills from this British Pathe film show a number of personnel gathered to see the huts at Bergen Belsen burnt down.  236 total views

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    Anthony Stedman Till – RAMC

    Anthony Stedman Till, known as ‘Tim’, was a consultant surgeon in Oxford. He was born in London, on 5 September 1909, the eldest son of Thomas Marson Till OBE, an accountant, and Gladys Stedman, the daughter of a metal broker in the City.  154 total views

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  • Vincent Michael Fay (British Army Chaplain)

    THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, JUNE 1945. Father Vincent Fay, a British Army chaplain of 9th British General Hospital, christens a baby, Henji Dorochova, who was born in Belsen.  80 total views

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