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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. 17,505 total views
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Harry Morgan RAMC
Harry Morgan, seen here with wife Margaret (nee Walker). 15,806 total views
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Molly Silva Jones – British Red Cross
The human laundry. ‘Going into that place, who could forget it?’ wrote Molly Sylva* Jones of the Red Cross. 16,523 total views
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Ian Whimster – Medical Student
Ian Wesley Whimster MRCPath was a reader of dermatology histopathology at St Thomas Hospital, London. 15,057 total views
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Ian Forsyth and Julien Wieciech
As a young soldier in April 1945, Ian Forsyth faced the gates of Belsen concentration camp from the confines of an army tank as allied troops prepared to liberate it and for the first time in his life he understood what he was actually fighting for. 15,656 total views
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Derrick A Sington – 14 Amplifier Unit
On 15 April at the request of GSO, 11 Armoured Division, 14 Amplifier Unit joined 23 Hussars and accompanied them into the “neutral zone” of Belsen Concentration Camp. 16,727 total views
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Marie Brown
Marie was born in Chorley in Lancashire in 1923. Her father was the manager of a cotton factory, but during the Great Recession, the factory closed down and the family were plunged into poverty with no social welfare safety net. 15,264 total views
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Colonel Michael Osborn
Colonel Osborn was one of the first to enter Belsen concentration camp, and what he discovered stayed with him for the rest of his life. Shortly after that he liberated his brother Myles from a prisoner of war camp. They had not seen each other for more than 10 years. 15,882 total views
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Mike Courtenay
Born 14 March 1923; died 25 June 2018 ‘Has anyone got a case?’ 15,917 total views
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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. 18,070 total views
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