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    Marie Lillian Gent

    Having become quite interested in Genealogy and I’ve been able to find out a lot about my family including meeting “cousins” who connect 7 generations ago in the 1750’s.  7,132 total views

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  • Hugh J Campbell (Lt.)

    I have a photo of my father there. His platoon was the unit that found the place. He was a combat veteran but he once said to me of all the torments his mind kept reminding him of this was the most vivid. He never got over it.  12,663 total views

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    Albert Wood – ‘9’ TROOP 174 Battery 58th L.A.A

    This letter was written by my uncle, Albert Wood, to his wife Jenny.  10,865 total views

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  • Major Harold Daintree Johnson, 224 Parachute Field Ambulance

    On 15 April 1945 224 Parachute Field Ambulance was the first medical team that went into Bergen-Belsen. Below is the army description of the situation found, in efficient military language, taken from the archives of 224th Parachute Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.  11,520 total views

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    Eric Wilfred Taylor

    When British soldiers entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp they were confronted with the horror that the Nazi retreat had left behind.  1,901 total views

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  • First in – 63rd Anti Tank Regt.

    A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry).  13,007 total views

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  • Bertram Clayton Brealey

    Today (3.12.2013) at Hartshill Cemetery, Staffordshire a lady spoke to me while visiting a grave.  12,029 total views

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  • Maj Benjamin George Barnett (63rd ATR)

    Major Ben Barnett, one of the first British officers to arrive at Belsen, wrote: “There are no words in the English language that can give a true impression of the ghastly horrors of this camp.”  11,773 total views

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  • Major George Wyndham Le Strange

    The Strange Account of Major George Wyndham Le Strange.  13,613 total views

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  • Tomi Reichental

    Tomi Reichental on liberation day in Bergen-Belsen

    Tomi Reichental on liberation day in Bergen-Belsen.  12,073 total views

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