• george milner Belsen

    George Barrington Milner (Royal Artillery)

    My Grandad George Milner, 1908-1977. Royal Artillery 21st Army Group. 1939-1945. His war ended at Luneburg heath, may 1945, never spoke about what he heard and saw at Belsen. Enlisted 18th April 1939. 42nd AA Bn RE (TA)  261 total views

  • Sister Marion Murray

    My aunt, Sister Marion Murray from Dornoch in the county of Sutherland who served on hospital ships.  23,869 total views

  • Conrad Wilson (AFS) Letter

    Conrad Wilson, wrote, including a few rare recollections he wrote about his role as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service searching for survivors when the British Army, with whom he was serving, liberated the camp. This was a part of Conrad’s life that he suppressed for decades after the War, rarely if ever speaking of it. That silence changed, briefly at least, in 1969, when Bill wrote to Dad asking about his role in searching for survivors in the Camp—something that Bill’s father, Dave, had mentioned on occasion but said that his brother never talked about it.  22,992 total views

  • Johanna Hogerzeil (Han)

    Dr Han Collis, was a courageous life-long champion of children particularly in Germany’s immediate post-war horror, later in Nigeria, India, and in her adopted country, Ireland.  20,612 total views

  • Neville Foote

    ONE of Britain’s last surviving D-Day heroes has told how he liberated occupied France armed with only a fold-up bike and a misfiring gun 75 years on from the landings.  26,613 total views

  • Don Sheppard – Despatch Rider

    Ahead of the 75th anniversary of Bergen-Belsen’s liberation, former despatch rider Don Sheppard, now 99, recalls what he discovered at the Nazi death camp  27,487 total views

  • Liberation Day

    Despite the camp being entered first on Sunday 15 April 1945, by eight men of the 6th SAS and then 1–3000 men of 11 and 29 Armoured Brigade, these troops stayed no more than a few hours and moved out to continue the war.  24,169 total views