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Bill Millin
Branko Lustig. As a 12/13 year old, the future producer of Steven Spielberg’s movie ‘Schindler’s List’, was in Bergen-Belsen and on the brink of dying when he all of a sudden heard a sound he thought might have been produced by angels. It was in fact British Army pipers playing as the camp was liberated. 528 total views
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Leslie Hardman
Reverend Leslie Henry Hardman MBE HCF (18 February 1913 – 7 October 2008) was an Orthodox Rabbi and the first Jewish British Army chaplain to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, an experience “that made him a public figure, both within his community and outside it”. 337 total views
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Pipers – Liberating Belsen?
We are grateful to Bruce Hitchings MBE BEM, Kirknewton, Scotland and to Bob Shlaer of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the following story. Last November, Bob read an obituary that appeared in American newspaper, The Week. The deceased was Branko Lustig (87) who, as a 10-year-old Croatian Jew, had been imprisoned at Auschwitz. The obituary describes how one day the youngster was ordered to stand in the front row at a hanging. 264 total views
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Hector Duff OBE
Tribute paid to 101-year-old WWII veteran Hector Duff. 204 total views
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Report on Belsen Camp by Lt. Col. Taylor
REPORT ON BELSEN CAMP by Lt-Col. R.I.G. TAYLOR, DSO, MC. Appendix ‘A’ attached is a short account of the condition of the camp as known before the entry on 15 April. Appendix ‘B’ is a copy of the agreement concluded between representatives of the Allied and German Armies on 12 April 1945. PART I. On 13 April I received written instructions from B.G.S., 8 Corps that I was to assume control of the area as given in the agreement, that I was to command all enemy troops remaining in the area, and “in principle British troops were to be employed to give authority of enemy forces vis a…
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Sir James Gowans (1924-2020)
St Catherine’s College is saddened to share the news that Sir James Gowans, Honorary and Founding Fellow, passed away on 1st April, 2020 aged 95. 259 total views
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Richard Carr-Gomm
Major Richard Culling Carr-Gomm, OBE (2 January 1922 – 27 October 2008) was the founder of the Abbeyfield Society, the Morpeth Society and the Carr-Gomm Society, UK charities providing care and housing for disadvantaged and lonely people. 315 total views
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Joe Stone, Doctor
My grandpa Joe Stone, who was a Jewish doctor in the British Army division that liberated Belsen, becoming heavily involved in the rehabilitation of the survivors there. 298 total views
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Harold Tetlow, Padre
The first religious service held at Belsen took place using an alter under canvas with a rough wooden cross on top. 285 total views
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John Charles Turner (Trooper)
14777605 Trooper John Charles Turner, Bootle born and raised. 220 total views
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