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75th Anniversary Press – Ken Knight
Ken Knight was one of the first men through the gates. He spoke movingly about the experience to the Dorset Echo in 2003. Here we re-publish the interview with Ken who passed away in 2007. 23,952 total views
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Sister Mary Bond (29th BGH)
Posted with 29th British General Hospital (29th BGH) to Belsen in May 1945, by which time ‘I was proud to be a senior Sister with many added responsibilities’. 21,544 total views
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Fraser Eadie (Lt Col)
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 29,139 total views
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The Signwriter at Belsen
Hello welcome this website section relating to the DLI and the part they played at Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945. 26,800 total views
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The U.K. Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey
Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today (November 10, 2021) announced the release of a United Kingdom Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey including a comparison among England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all of which show a surprising lack of awareness of key historical Holocaust facts, including the U.K.’s own connection to Holocaust history. 22,677 total views
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Gisella Perl
Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 – 16 December 1988) was a Hungarian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work. 26,282 total views
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Craig P. Gilbert (AFS)
Craig P. Gilbert was born on August 13, 1925 in Manhattan. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1943 and joined the American Field Service near the end of World War II. 23,079 total views
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Michael “Moe” Resin
Michael “Moe” Resin talking with prisoners at Bergen-Belsen after the camp was liberated in 1945. 23,117 total views
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John Reynolds – Medical Student
“It deeply affected him and his trust in human nature,” says Anne Stephenson of her father John Reynolds, one of 95 London medical students who arrived at the notorious Belsen concentration camp in May 1945 to help care for survivors wracked by disease and starvation. 22,558 total views
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David Sells Hurwood: Guys Medical Student
In 1945, while still a medical student, David volunteered for service in Europe at Belsen concentration camp. Upon his return it was discovered that he had contracted tuberculosis and at one stage he was not expected to survive. 21,940 total views
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