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The U.K. Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey
Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today (November 10, 2021) announced the release of a United Kingdom Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey including a comparison among England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all of which show a surprising lack of awareness of key historical Holocaust facts, including the U.K.’s own connection to Holocaust history. 24,197 total views
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Craig P. Gilbert (AFS)
Craig P. Gilbert was born on August 13, 1925 in Manhattan. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1943 and joined the American Field Service near the end of World War II. 24,383 total views
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Michael “Moe” Resin
Michael “Moe” Resin talking with prisoners at Bergen-Belsen after the camp was liberated in 1945. 24,770 total views
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Paula Mandell
“A photo of my late Grandmother, Paula Mandell, after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen.” Says Michael V. Gruber 24,803 total views
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David Sells Hurwood: Guys Medical Student
In 1945, while still a medical student, David volunteered for service in Europe at Belsen concentration camp. Upon his return it was discovered that he had contracted tuberculosis and at one stage he was not expected to survive. 22,861 total views
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Medical Report (Read with Caution)
Belsen Concentration Camp Visited 22 Apr 45, 6 days after its capture by Second Army. 26,027 total views
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Edgar Ainsworth
Edgar Ainsworth was born in 1905. As the Art Editor for Picture Post magazine, Ainsworth visited Bergen-Belsen three times in the months after it was liberated and recorded in his drawings the changes he saw among the people he met there. 29,144 total views
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Josephine Bunting
Known as Madge, she was born in December 1918 to parents Lionel and Bessie Bunting of Churchill Road Chipping Norton. 23,568 total views
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Clement Edwards
As a newly qualified doctor, Edwards was attached to an 11th Light Field Ambulance (LFA) unit which landed on Sword Beach soon after D-Day; he and his colleagues then joined the Guards Armoured Division as it advanced through France and Belgium to northern Germany. 23,271 total views
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Joyce Parkinson. (FRS)
Of lasting influence on my aunt Joyce Parkinson, who has died aged 94, was the time she spent in Germany at the end of the second world war, initially with a Quaker relief team, which was one of the first civilian teams to enter the concentration camp at Belsen. Their job was to clothe, register and begin to rehabilitate survivors. 24,559 total views
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