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Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers
Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers is best remembered for the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine, which earned her worldwide recognition. 3,978 total views
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Fred Brushett (113 LAA)
Speaking from his armchair in the Hospice in The Weald, former serviceman Fred Brushett introduces himself and his reasons for making the film. 4,607 total views
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Aubrey Milstein – Royal Engineers
GERMANY: Dozens of elderly former British soldiers marched into the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for one last time yesterday for a tearful reunion with the prisoners they freed 60 years ago. 5,519 total views
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Wilfred Evans (113 LAA)
1909–1999 4,601 total views
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Major Jos Mark
From his teens until his death last week at the age of 95, Jos Mark was committed to his country and to those who gave their lives to protect it. 5,508 total views
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Frank Johnson (63rd ATR)
Driver in World War II: British Royal Artillery 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment. 7,058 total views
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Sarah Eckstein (Grebenau) Jewish Relief Unit
Sarah was born in 1916, the second child of Hanoch and Helen (Sokolower) Eckstein of Warsaw, Poland. With her older brother, Morris (Moshe Zvi), the family moved to North London shortly after the end of the first World War. 4,878 total views
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Chaim Herzog
A talented athlete, Herzog (Sept. 17, 1918–April 17, 1997) was a junior bantamweight boxing champion in his native Ireland. 5,723 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. 4,428 total views
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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. 5,687 total views