-
Paul Wyand (Cameraman)
Paul Wyand began his career as a motor mechanic at Brooklands, but was encouraged by his uncle Leslie Wyand , who worked for the American Pathe News, to combine this with taking news photographs to sell through the Sport and General Press Agency. 4,651 total views
-
James Kitchener Heath
Adrian Andrews, who lives in Bishop’s Stortford with wife Gunta and their two children, has written a book, A Pithead Polar Bear, about his grandfather’s Second Word War service, including the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 5,920 total views
-
King Whyte. CBS News Reporter
My father enlisted in the Canadian Army during World War Two believing it was his duty. His father served in the RAF during WWI and his grandfather served in the British military. 5,949 total views
-
Hadassah Rosensaft (Bimko)
Sunday, May 13, 1945, five days after the end of World War II in Europe, was Mother’s Day in the United States. At Bergen-Belsen in Germany, however, there was nothing for my mother to celebrate on that day as she took part in the ongoing monumental medical and humanitarian effort to save as many of that Nazi concentration camp’s critically ill survivors as possible. 5,063 total views
-
Col Gillies – Royal Engineers
My dad Coll Gillies Royal Engineers was one of the first into Belsen he never talked much about it he was 22 at the time. 7,015 total views
-
Thomas Vernon Tubman – 11th Armoured Division
My grandfather, Thomas Vernon Tubman, army service number 14348540, served in the 11th Armoured Division during WW2. 4,896 total views
-
Sally Wideroff – JDC Relief Worker
Sally Wideroff (born Sally Bendremer), a JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE) relief worker, spent thirteen months in the British Zone of Germany where she worked first in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Warburg children’s home in Hamburg-Blankenese. 5,062 total views
-
Jonah Jones – 224 Parachute Field Ambulance
My father, the artist Jonah Jones (1919-2004), was effectively a lifelong pacifist. As with many things, including religion, he was a doubter, but he never quite renounced his principles, for he hated war, having witnessed its dreadful depredations. 4,329 total views
-
Fusiliers Mont-Royal – Canada
As a very young teenager, an exceptional documentary on the concentration camps had been broadcast one evening on Radio-Canada. It had been shown a on weekday at 11 o’clock at night. 4,671 total views
-
Ian Whimster – Medical Student
Ian Wesley Whimster MRCPath was a reader of dermatology histopathology at St Thomas Hospital, London. 4,841 total views
A NEW ONLINE ARCHIVE