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George Millington Woodwark: Medical Student
Born in 1923 in England and grew up on Harley Street, London, died peacefully on June 4, 2012. 15,746 total views
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Vincent Michael Fay (British Army Chaplain)
THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, JUNE 1945. Father Vincent Fay, a British Army chaplain of 9th British General Hospital, christens a baby, Henji Dorochova, who was born in Belsen. 15,168 total views
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AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive
Lilian Levy, Helen Bamber, Sara Kraus-Lefkovitz, Lady Zahava Kohn and Mirjam Finklestein remember Bergen-Belsen. 14,454 total views
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Anthony Stedman Till – RAMC
Anthony Stedman Till, known as ‘Tim’, was a consultant surgeon in Oxford. He was born in London, on 5 September 1909, the eldest son of Thomas Marson Till OBE, an accountant, and Gladys Stedman, the daughter of a metal broker in the City. 13,723 total views
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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. 14,333 total views
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Major George Wyndham Le Strange
The Strange Account of Major George Wyndham Le Strange. 14,270 total views
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63rd Anti-Tank Regt
A super photo of B Troop, Anti Tank Regt. 249 Battery. (Oxford Yeomanry). 16,649 total views
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Squadron Leader Douglas Haig Palmer RNZAF
I am responding to your request for information about the liberation of the Bergen Belsen camp in May 1945. 14,068 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”. 16,191 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. 13,661 total views