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Major Dick Williams
Sixty years ago 24-year-old Dick Williams set off through the woods of northern Germany in search of a “refugee” camp. The previous day, a German officer had agreed to hand the camp over to the advancing British. 11,378 total views
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To Meet in Hell
British doctor who was forced to play God in Belsen: He was one of the first to stumble on the horrors of the SS camp in a forest – now, 75 years on, a new book captures the depths of wickedness he witnessed as he struggled to decide who could be saved. 8,458 total views
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Bronislawa Wiechowna
A famous photo taken at Belsen. The photo was taken by Sgt Oakes on 21st April 1945, stating “Women of the camp collect bread ration.” 11,968 total views
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Gordon Dutton (Medical Student)
Former consultant psychiatrist South Ockenden Hospitals, London (b Hertfordshire 1923; q Middlesex 1946; MD, FRCPsych), d 23 July 1999. 9,505 total views
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The Perpetrators at Belsen
At least 480 people, including around 45 women, had worked at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as guards or members of the headquarters staff. Very few ever had to answer for their crimes before a court of law. 5,765 total views
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Liberation Dolls
‘Liberation dolls’ come to auction in Newbury. When the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, a party of British Red Cross nurses and doctors stayed and tended those they could help back to health. 9,778 total views
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No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory
No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory. RAMC. 9,929 total views
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Peter Granville Whateley Smith New
Major Peter Granville Whateley Smith who served in the 94th (Dorset & Hants) Field Regiment R.A. 10,920 total views
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Jim Henderson (113th LAA)
Faded photographs which have been weathered by time still convey the brutal horrors a young soldier witnessed when he helped liberate a Nazi death camp. 9,202 total views
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Walter Gallant
Was at the Liberation of Belsen. No unit info known. 10,706 total views
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