The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Welcome this new archive relating and dedicated to the men and women service personnel and the part they played at the Liberation and subsequent Humanitarian Effort of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp.

UPDATE: January 2026.
Thank you for all the info sent through. We have quite a backlog of names to research/confirm and add to the archive. We have been in touch with a large number of you – if we haven’t got back, please check your spam box and note the update below. The good news is we were able to recover a lot of emails pre 2025. This means we still have a gap between January 2025 and cNovember 2025. If you sent anything through, during this time, especially around the 80th anniversary of the Liberation, please forward it to us again.
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UPDATE: November, 2025.
We’ve lost email addresses. If you have sent an email and/or info this year. We have lost it. Prior to 2025, we have lost all our email addresses which is really frustrating. If you’d like to be involved with this project please send us a email – so we can add you back on our database again. Thank you.

80th Anniversary.
Thank you to everyone for submitting a name/details to coincide with the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen Belsen – we’ll go through all your submissions, moderate and add them on. If you have a photo or any more details please email us. Thank you.
liberator@belsen.co.uk

We are now inviting any relatives of service personnel who may have been at the camp to get in touch. Any regiment, service, nationality, volunteer or any snippet of information – we would like to hear from you. We do not believe there are any records of the diverse group of men and women, many completely untrained, who were involved with the camp, after it’s liberation.

Those That Served

Stanley Cruse

Something that haunted my late Father very much near his life’s end in 2013. Stanley Cruse said very little throughout Read more

Eric Lines - 113th DLI

My Father, Major Eric Lines MM RA was part of the liberation of Belsen. He never spoke of the experience Read more

Frank Moreham - 113th DLI

I attach a photo of Frank Joseph Moreham, must have been taken late ’45 and a copy of his Mention Read more

Medical Students: The London Hospital

Medical Students: The London Hospital Thomas Chometon Gibson 30 April 1921 – 2 May 2020 Reported on his frustrations at Read more

Newspaper Cutting - Reg Price

Reg Price and Cyril Nicklin at Belsen Concentration Camp. Read more

American Field Service

  Shortly after liberation, a contingent of around seventy* American Field Service (AFS) ambulance drivers from C and D Platoons Read more

Benjamin (Benny) Edwards

My father Benjamin (Benny) Edwards was in the military police and was also sent into liberate Bergen Belsen. He very Read more

William Charles Fraser

William Fraser - Ambulance Driver on front. One of the first into Belsen. Read more

David Kane (SAS)

My father, a German Jew, was there with the British SAS . He had just turned 23 and lost most Read more

Auschwitz and Holocaust Memorial Day

Auschwitz Memorial bring together the most important facts about the last stage of the operation of this German Nazi camp. Read more

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This site will progress and I’d encourage anyone with any info to get in touch. My granddad, Reg Price served with the 113th Durham Light Infantry*, as part of 369 Battery. As a signwriter, he produced this sign…

And this was kept in the family for years – so for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Belsen in 2020, subsequent VE Day and VJ Day, I thought it’s about time I’d try to find out more about Reg – his comrades (many of which are names, simply written on the back of photos), what they did together and for a way to remember them all, properly.
Read here about The Heroes of Belsen.

*Just 113th Durham Light Infantry? No we are interested in all Service and Medical personnel who took part during the humanitarian effort at Belsen Concentration Camp. Their roles and names are largely forgotten, as many were too horrified to ever speak of what they had to do, so this archive seeks to form a tribute to ALL those that were there, to find out more and to remember them.
If you have a relative, or any info, on the relief effort at Belsen, we’d love you to please get in touch. Email us: liberator@belsen.co.uk – Thank you

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UPDATE: 2025. Apologies for the ridiculous amount of Google adverts within the site. We are looking into changing this, to a more appropriate level. That said, the adverts do generate income to keep this site going.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Any 113th Durham Light Infantry friends or family are encouraged to get in touch via 113th@belsen.co.uk

** In 1938 the old 5th Battalion DLI changed its role to Searchlights and then in 1940 to Anti-Aircraft. This 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment went to Normandy in June 1944 and joined the advance into Germany in early 1945.
Official designation – Brigade: 100 AA • Division: 30 Corps. • Unit: 113 LAA Regt. RA (DLI) TA.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp
Names of British soldiers who liberated Belsen

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