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Eryl Hall Williams (FRS)
On April 21st, 1945, a team from the Friends [Quakers] Relief Service arrived to help clear the camp, to comfort the many dying inmates, and to care as best they could for the surviving ones. 21,144 total views
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Lilian Impey (FRS)
On the 21 April 1945, Friends Relief Service (FRS) Team 100 became one of six relief teams (five British Red Cross Commission) to enter Belsen. The team remained at the camp until the 25 May 1945. As the relief body of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), most who joined were committed pacifists. 21,243 total views
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Liberation of Belsen (79th Anniversary)
On 15 April 1945, British troops liberated the prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 10,204 total views
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Richard Dimbleby “Witness History”
How the first report from Belsen concentration camp shocked the world. 12,786 total views
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Sgt. Mike Lewis (AFPU)
Son of Jewish Polish refugees who had migrated to Britain before WWI, Cameraman Sergeant Mike Lewis was part of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) who filmed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He and his wife followed his daughters to Australia in his later years. 24,620 total views
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Bert Hardy – Photographer (AFPU)
Bert Hardy was born in London in May 1913. The eldest of seven children in a working-class family, he left school aged fourteen to work as a messenger collecting and delivering film and prints from West End chemists for a film processing company. 19,461 total views
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Bill Diack –
Bill Diack, who received the Legion d’honneur in 2017, was among the Scots who strove to ease the suffering of the Belsen victims. 21,317 total views
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RCAF – 440
“My uncle and his “brothers”. RCAF – 440. He’s holding a stray puppy they adopted. Taken after they helped liberate the Belsen Bergen concentration camp.” 18,006 total views
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Leslie Cole – War Artist
Leslie Cole was born in Swindon on August 11, 1910, and was to become best known as an official artist of the Second World War – and one of the first Allies to witness the full horror of Nazi death camps after liberation. 23,315 total views
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Patrick Moore. No.3 Commando
I would like to submit my grandads details. His name was Patrick Moore, he was a rifleman in No.3 commando. He told me he was at Belsen when the bodies were being moved into pits, which he helped with. Possibly attached to 2nd army group but he didn’t give many details. 19,771 total views
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