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Gilbert King, 249 Battery (Oxford Yeomanry) RA
There were tears as the Jewish men and women once held at the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany met Gilbert King, 96, who is one of only three former soldiers still alive of those who took the camp for the Allies in April 1945. 25,053 total views
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Victor Long (1SAS)
Those horrific images were seen at first hand by 82-year-old Victor Long, of Essex, a former SAS member who was one of the first British soldiers to enter the camp 60 years ago on Friday. These memories stay with you, you can never forget. 29,389 total views
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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. 25,113 total views
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Eric Wilfred Taylor
When British soldiers entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp they were confronted with the horror that the Nazi retreat had left behind. 15,905 total views
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First in – 63rd Anti Tank Regt.
A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). 28,309 total views
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Douglas Brock Peterkin
11th Light Field Ambulance. 16,675 total views
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Cine Film at Belsen
The liberation of Bergen Belsen was one of the most photographed, documented and filmed events of the war. 27,261 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.” 27,390 total views
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Albert Wood – ‘9’ TROOP 174 Battery 58th L.A.A
This letter was written by my uncle, Albert Wood, to his wife Jenny. 24,551 total views
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Maurice Hewlett (113th LAA)
My grandpa was 26 when he got to Bergen Belsen. 26,300 total views
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