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    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.  12,028 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.  10,385 total views

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    As requested, few details about my Father.  10,695 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.  12,575 total views

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    The liberation of Bergen Belsen was one of the most photographed, documented and filmed events of the war.  10,486 total views

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    Stills from this British Pathe film show a number of personnel gathered to see the huts at Bergen Belsen burnt down.  10,970 total views

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    My grandpa was 26 when he got to Bergen Belsen.  10,450 total views

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    First in (Pt 2)

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    Kenneth Knight – RAMC

    I am Kenneth Claude James Knight, now aged 85 (article dated November 2003 – Ed) and living in Dorset.  10,326 total views

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