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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. 6,488 total views
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Arnold R. Horwell (102 Control Section)
My father, Dr Arnold Horwell (Horwitz),who has died at the age of 92, was born in Berlin; his father, Hugo, was the director of the state spirits monopoly. 8,218 total views
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Maurice Hewlett (113th LAA)
My grandpa was 26 when he got to Bergen Belsen. 6,489 total views
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David Alwyne Nicholas (RAF)
Photo taken at Celle. 6,287 total views
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Harold Burgh (REME)
Harold Burgh, World War II veteran and former warrant officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. 8,143 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.” 6,314 total views
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Frontline – Memory of the Camps
MEMORY OF THE CAMPS Original Airdate: May 5,1985 7,994 total views
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Vernon James Evans
Liberation of the camp. Pass issued on 29 July 1945 (filed aside) and photo taken with freed inmates. Vernon in the middle of photo 6,302 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. 7,058 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. 7,390 total views
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