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Richard Dimbleby “Witness History”
How the first report from Belsen concentration camp shocked the world. 6,575 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.” 13,369 total views
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Dennis Lewis
He was born in July 1913 in Chipping Norton and before the war worked as a solicitor’s clerk, living at 62, New Street. 14,061 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. 4,526 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. 17,750 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. 15,125 total views
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Stanley Winfield (RCAF)
Stanley Winfield was born in August of 1923 in Calgary, Alberta. He left Calgary in 1941 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he served as a private and aircraftsman in Halifax. 14,551 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. 13,669 total views
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John Hankinson, Medical Student
John was born on 10 March 1919 in Ramsbottom in Lancashire and was proud of his half-Irish parentage. After schooling in Thornleigh College, Bolton, he graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in 1946. 16,099 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. 15,844 total views
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