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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. 2,675 total views
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London Gazette Awards
CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD. St. James’s Palace, S.W. 3,280 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. 26,957 total views
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Frontline – Memory of the Camps
MEMORY OF THE CAMPS Original Airdate: May 5,1985 23,818 total views
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Charles Kyndt (Medical Student)
Charles Kyndt, Belsen Medical Student. London Hospital. 12,565 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. 21,843 total views
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Squadron Leader Douglas Haig Palmer RNZAF
I am responding to your request for information about the liberation of the Bergen Belsen camp in May 1945. 23,322 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. 24,687 total views
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Joe Stone, Doctor
My grandpa Joe Stone, who was a Jewish doctor in the British Army division that liberated Belsen, becoming heavily involved in the rehabilitation of the survivors there. 22,032 total views
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Report on Belsen Camp by Lt. Col. Taylor
REPORT ON BELSEN CAMP by Lt-Col. R.I.G. TAYLOR, DSO, MC. Appendix ‘A’ attached is a short account of the condition of the camp as known before the entry on 15 April. Appendix ‘B’ is a copy of the agreement concluded between representatives of the Allied and German Armies on 12 April 1945. PART I. On 13 April I received written instructions from B.G.S., 8 Corps that I was to assume control of the area as given in the agreement, that I was to command all enemy troops remaining in the area, and “in principle British troops were to be employed to give authority of enemy forces vis a…