She nursed dying teenager Anne Frank, famed for her diaries, at
Belsen.
Gena Turgel withstood four concentration camps before being freed by the British from
Belsen in north Germany in 1945.
Gena Turgel lived through four concentration camps and nursed Anne Frank before behing liberated by the British Army from
Belsen in 1945.
Not surprisingly, his experiences never left him and after returning to England in September 1945, having contracted a disease at
Belsen that attacked his nervous system, he was hospitalised for five months.
Arrested in Jersey - the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain bodies graves by 'outside Harold occupied during the Second World War - the day before D-Day in 1944 for helping his sister harbour an escaped Russian prisoner of war, having a radio and for "non-co-operation" with German forces, he was interned in three camps before being the first prisoner liberated from
Belsen on April 16 1945.
Critique: A horrifying primary source of the Nazi Holocaust, and a harrowing true-life saga of the difficulties in reconstructing one's life after surviving the unthinkable, I Was a Boy in
Belsen is a welcome addition to Holocaust Studies collections.
Mark Celinscak's Distance from the
Belsen Heap offers the unique and haunting perspective of the language, metaphors, and narratives of many of those Canadian and British eyewitnesses -- virtually all of whom held the belief that "camp" meant a "work" facility for political prisoners, not a murderous hellhole of starvation, disease, and violence: "What was now present before their eyes was previously unthinkable a world men felt totally unprepared and unequipped to grasp," writes Celinscak.
Belsen was the only concentration camp liberated by the British.
"They say the birds don't sing at
Belsen," he said.
Rudi and Paul nished and Paul nished R up on 'e Last Train from
Belsen' and were reunited with their sister Eve on the way back to EHolland.
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Belsen survivor Mady Gerrard spoke in honour of British officer Lieutenant John Randall, who liberated her from
Belsen in April 1945 when she was 15.
Mady Gerrard is herself a holocaust survivor of the Auschwitz and
Belsen camps who came to Wales from Hungary 58 years ago.