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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. 3,123 total views
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George Albert Buckfield
I am writing to ask if I would please be able to add my dad, George Albert Buckfield to the list of liberators on your fantastic website which I came across while doing some research about Belsen concentration camp. 29 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. 9,485 total views
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Medical Students: St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Medical Students: St Bartholomew’s Hospital 9,165 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 7,646 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. 8,891 total views
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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. 9,475 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. 8,599 total views
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Officers from 113th DLI
Officers from 113th DLI. 8,316 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. 8,962 total views
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Sgt Jack Rawlings (63rd ATR)
Here we can see Sargeant Jack Rawlings with members of the camp staff during a search. 9,469 total views