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Bergen Belsen Memorial
Despite the annual britishness tweets of the liberation of Belsen, there is no memorial at the site for all the nationalities who went to help. 3,548 total views
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Guides at Belsen
I know some Guides were sent to Belsen to teach the children how to play but you do not have them in your list. This is the list I have been sent by the Girl Guiding archivist. 14 total views
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British POW Liberated
My Grandad was also liberated from Bergen-Belsen in Apr 1945. 19,510 total views
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Johanna Hogerzeil (Han)
Dr Han Collis, was a courageous life-long champion of children particularly in Germany’s immediate post-war horror, later in Nigeria, India, and in her adopted country, Ireland. 17,158 total views
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William Stanley Webb – Royal Artillery (113th?)
My granddad, William Stanley Webb. He served in ww2 for 5 years. 19,446 total views
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Stanley Levitt – 113th LAA
“My grandad – Stanley Levitt, born and raised in 1 St Hilda Crescent on the Headland.” 17,872 total views
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John Goff Kilner (Medical Student)
Middlesex Hospital 18,835 total views
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Liberation Day
Despite the camp being entered first on Sunday 15 April 1945, by eight men of the 6th SAS and then 1–3000 men of 11 and 29 Armoured Brigade, these troops stayed no more than a few hours and moved out to continue the war. 17,575 total views
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Bedford QLB
The 113th LAA can be seen here on the VE Day Parade. We asked various forums to confirm the vehicles. 22,254 total views
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Charles Kyndt – Medical Student
Charles Kyndt – medical student at Belsen. The London Hospital 18,546 total views
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Brigadier Robert Daniell
Having smashed through Belsen’s gates and the first building he came to, scattering guards in all directions, Daniell found a trench 150 yards long filled with naked bodies; he then broke down the door of the camp hospital, in which 90 per cent of the patients were dead. 20,264 total views
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