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Harold Tetlow, Padre
The first religious service held at Belsen took place using an alter under canvas with a rough wooden cross on top. 12,409 total views
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James Willis Oliphant – 11th Armoured Division
Hi, my Grandfather, James Willis Oliphant served with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry all through the war, latterly with the 2nd Fifes as part of 11th Armoured Division, the Black Bull which liberated Belsen. 12,725 total views
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Tom Derek Bowden – Captured British Soldier
The Israeli ambassador and Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, were among those who paid tribute at a memorial service to a Norfolk soldier who fought for Israel after witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust. 10,077 total views
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John Proskie (RCAF/224 Mil Gov)
Canadian, Proskie was assigned to 224 Military Government. He arrived at Belsen April 17th. 12,399 total views
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John Charles Turner (Trooper)
14777605 Trooper John Charles Turner, Bootle born and raised. 13,566 total views
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William Roach Account at Belsen
William Roach, Troop Commander in the 58th Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, and Battery Commander Major Chapman were told to go to Belsen. With two troops, they arrived at the camp mid-morning on 15th April. 10,475 total views
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SAS Enter Bergen Belsen
March 1945, two SAS squadrons numbering about 300 men in all crossed the Rhine at the tip of an Allied army invading Germany itself. 15,836 total views
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George Leonard (63rd ATR)
Even before it had been officially liberated by the 11th Armoured Division on April 15, 1945, George Leonard was there behind enemy lines with a tiny force of just 200 soldiers under a flag of truce. 12,153 total views
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James Henry Molyneaux (Lord)
“If I hadn’t seen what I did at Belsen I don’t think I would have believed someone could do those things to another living person.” Lord Molyneaux 13,011 total views
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Anita Lasker Wallfisch – Liberation
Anita Lasker Wallfisch speaks about her liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 9,517 total views
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