• 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.  12,832 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.  12,404 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”.  14,697 total views

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    List of Units at Belsen

    1 Vascular Injuries Research Team 10 Military Government Garrison Detachment 102 Control Section Early May 1945 102 Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit 104 Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit 11 Light Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. (Field Hygiene) 17/04/1945 113 LAA Regt Royal Artillery 18/04/1945 113 LAA Regt Workshops R.E.M.E. 18/04/1945 11th (British) Armoured Division Mobile Bath Section 12 Displaced Persons Assembly Team 14 Amplifying Unit, Intelligence Corps 15/04/1945 155 Detail Issue Depot 1575 Light Artillery Platoon R.A.S.C. 1576 Heavy Artillery Platoon R.A.S.C. 15th Scottish Division Mobile Bath Section 163 Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. 08/05/1945 166 DID R.A.S.C. 172 Battery, 58th LAA Regiment RA 174 Battery, 58th LAA Regiment RA 22 Field Transfusion Unit…

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  • Ted Smith – Canadian Pilot

    Ted Smith, 92, was a Canadian pilot during the Second World War who saw frequent combat. But it is a spring day in April 1945 that’s seared into his memory. He arrived at Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi concentration camp, two days after it was liberated. Here is his description of the horrific scene he encountered.  11,641 total views

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