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King Whyte. CBS News Reporter
My father enlisted in the Canadian Army during World War Two believing it was his duty. His father served in the RAF during WWI and his grandfather served in the British military. 5,947 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. 5,059 total views
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Col Gillies – Royal Engineers
My dad Coll Gillies Royal Engineers was one of the first into Belsen he never talked much about it he was 22 at the time. 6,991 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. 4,895 total views
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Sally Wideroff – JDC Relief Worker
Sally Wideroff (born Sally Bendremer), a JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE) relief worker, spent thirteen months in the British Zone of Germany where she worked first in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Warburg children’s home in Hamburg-Blankenese. 5,060 total views
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Jonah Jones – 224 Parachute Field Ambulance
My father, the artist Jonah Jones (1919-2004), was effectively a lifelong pacifist. As with many things, including religion, he was a doubter, but he never quite renounced his principles, for he hated war, having witnessed its dreadful depredations. 4,327 total views
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Fusiliers Mont-Royal – Canada
As a very young teenager, an exceptional documentary on the concentration camps had been broadcast one evening on Radio-Canada. It had been shown a on weekday at 11 o’clock at night. 4,667 total views
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Ian Whimster – Medical Student
Ian Wesley Whimster MRCPath was a reader of dermatology histopathology at St Thomas Hospital, London. 4,840 total views
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‘Dick’ Everett Jenkins – Medical Student
In April 1945, just before the Second World War ended, nearly 100 medical students from across London volunteered to support the British army. In this group, there were students from St Mary’s Medical School and Westminster Medical School, two of the schools that formed Imperial College School of Medicine. 75 years on, we want to share their stories and celebrate their courage. 4,409 total views
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63rd ATR – C Troop
Group photo of 63rd Anti Tank Regt. C Troop. 7,157 total views
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