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658 Air Observation Post Squadron
Belsen (officially Bergen-Belsen) concentration camp was set up in 1940, located in modern Lower Saxony, Germany. Until 1943 the camp served exclusively as a Prisoner of War (POW) camp. In April 1943 the German Schutzstaffel (SS) took over a portion of Bergen-Belsen and converted it first into a civilian residence camp and, later, into a concentration camp. Whilst Bergen-Belsen contained no gas chambers, an estimated 50,000 people died of starvation, overwork, disease, brutality and medical experiments. 7,069 total views
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David Alwyne Nicholas (RAF)
Photo taken at Celle. 7,147 total views
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Harold Burgh (REME)
Harold Burgh, World War II veteran and former warrant officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. 9,902 total views
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Frontline – Memory of the Camps
MEMORY OF THE CAMPS Original Airdate: May 5,1985 8,970 total views
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Vernon James Evans
Liberation of the camp. Pass issued on 29 July 1945 (filed aside) and photo taken with freed inmates. Vernon in the middle of photo 7,127 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.” 7,133 total views
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Vincent Michael Fay (British Army Chaplain)
THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, JUNE 1945. Father Vincent Fay, a British Army chaplain of 9th British General Hospital, christens a baby, Henji Dorochova, who was born in Belsen. 8,552 total views
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Anthony Stedman Till – RAMC
Anthony Stedman Till, known as ‘Tim’, was a consultant surgeon in Oxford. He was born in London, on 5 September 1909, the eldest son of Thomas Marson Till OBE, an accountant, and Gladys Stedman, the daughter of a metal broker in the City. 8,143 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. 8,182 total views
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George Millington Woodwark: Medical Student
Born in 1923 in England and grew up on Harley Street, London, died peacefully on June 4, 2012. 8,592 total views
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