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Victor Long (1SAS)
Those horrific images were seen at first hand by 82-year-old Victor Long, of Essex, a former SAS member who was one of the first British soldiers to enter the camp 60 years ago on Friday. These memories stay with you, you can never forget. 8,223 total views
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Bulldozer Driver Wrinn
Stills from cine film dated 19th April. Wrinn from Hoddington, Scotland, drives the bulldozer. 6,858 total views
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Burning the Huts
Stills from this British Pathe film show a number of personnel gathered to see the huts at Bergen Belsen burnt down. 6,993 total views
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Medical Students: St Thomas’
Medical Students: St Thomas’ 6,885 total views
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Albert “Paddy” Sutton – RAF
A photo album from an Irish second World War veteran who was present at the Liberation of Belsen concentration camp has been made public for the first time. 6,895 total views
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First in (Pt 2)
Further info for the ‘First In’ to Belsen… 6,272 total views
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Gilbert King, 249 Battery (Oxford Yeomanry) RA
There were tears as the Jewish men and women once held at the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany met Gilbert King, 96, who is one of only three former soldiers still alive of those who took the camp for the Allies in April 1945. 6,262 total views
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Alan Frickers. Pioneer Corps
As requested, few details about my Father. 5,641 total views
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658 Air Observation Post Squadron
Belsen (officially Bergen-Belsen) concentration camp was set up in 1940, located in modern Lower Saxony, Germany. Until 1943 the camp served exclusively as a Prisoner of War (POW) camp. In April 1943 the German Schutzstaffel (SS) took over a portion of Bergen-Belsen and converted it first into a civilian residence camp and, later, into a concentration camp. Whilst Bergen-Belsen contained no gas chambers, an estimated 50,000 people died of starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and medical experiments. 6,488 total views
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Arnold R. Horwell (102 Control Section)
My father, Dr Arnold Horwell (Horwitz),who has died at the age of 92, was born in Berlin; his father, Hugo, was the director of the state spirits monopoly. 8,218 total views