• 75th Anniversary Press – Ken Knight

    Ken Knight was one of the first men through the gates. He spoke movingly about the experience to the Dorset Echo in 2003. Here we re-publish the interview with Ken who passed away in 2007.  19,868 total views

  • Belsen sign

    The Signwriter at Belsen

    Hello welcome this website section relating to the DLI and the part they played at Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945.  21,461 total views

  • Kenneth Clokey

    Kenneth Edmund Clokey

    Captain Kenneth Clokey was studying medicine at Guy’s Hospital, London, when war broke out and he enlisted to fight.  9,663 total views

  • Jack Marcovitch – Canadian Jewish News.

    Jack Marcovitch (1923-1994) was born in Montreal, Canada. His original page can be found HERE. In 2025, for the 80th anniversary of the liberation Marcovitch’s daughters—Linda Eisenberg and Gloria Borts—join The CJN Daily to share what their father brought home with him and how the trauma marked him for life. The interview has been reproduced here with the kind permission of The CJN.  8,529 total views

  • Bernard Levy

    Bernard Levy, a corporal in the British Military Government at the time, returned to Bergen-Belsen with Presenter Natasha Kaplinsky and spoke of the memories he tried so hard to forget.  23,862 total views

  • Harry Skeggs – 32 CSS

    The funeral of Harry Skeggs, a committed and engaged member of St Catherine’s congregation for over sixty years, took place at Chelmsford Crematorium on Wednesday 10th May 2017.  Below is an edited version of the tribute and address given at that service.  17,831 total views

  • Sydney Gottlieb

    General practitioner who became a leading psychiatrist to jazz musicians, actors, and writers.  23,798 total views

  • Sister Mary Bond (29th BGH)

    Posted with 29th British General Hospital (29th BGH) to Belsen in May 1945, by which time ‘I was proud to be a senior Sister with many added responsibilities’.  17,493 total views