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John Proskie (RCAF/224 Mil Gov)
Canadian, Proskie was assigned to 224 Military Government. He arrived at Belsen April 17th. 17,718 total views
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James Henry Molyneaux (Lord)
“If I hadn’t seen what I did at Belsen I don’t think I would have believed someone could do those things to another living person.” Lord Molyneaux 18,158 total views
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Hugh O Hara – 11th Armoured Brigade
This is the horrifying image of young soldier Hugh O’Hara helping to bury thousands of death camp victims after liberating notorious Bergen-Belsen. Hugh, who served with the 11th Armoured Brigade, sits at the wheel of a bulldozer, a white hanky at his face, looking out over dozens of dead bodies. 19,132 total views
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Tom Derek Bowden – Captured British Soldier
The Israeli ambassador and Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, were among those who paid tribute at a memorial service to a Norfolk soldier who fought for Israel after witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust. 15,640 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. 17,587 total views
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James Willis Oliphant – 11th Armoured Division
Hi, my Grandfather, James Willis Oliphant served with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry all through the war, latterly with the 2nd Fifes as part of 11th Armoured Division, the Black Bull which liberated Belsen. 18,356 total views
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Kenneth Robertson Dempter (Claude) Medical Student
Former consultant pathologist King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor (b 1924; q St Thomas’s 1945; MD, FRCPath), d 6 March 2001. 18,399 total views
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George Leonard (63rd ATR)
Even before it had been officially liberated by the 11th Armoured Division on April 15, 1945, George Leonard was there behind enemy lines with a tiny force of just 200 soldiers under a flag of truce. 18,740 total views
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SAS Enter Bergen Belsen
March 1945, two SAS squadrons numbering about 300 men in all crossed the Rhine at the tip of an Allied army invading Germany itself. 22,855 total views
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Richard Elberfeld – American Field Service
My father, Richard Bradford Elberfeld, was a member of the American Field Service, attached to a British unit who liberated Bergen Belsen. 16,653 total views
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