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Belsen

a village in NE Germany: with Bergen, the site of a Nazi concentration camp (1943--45)

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She nursed dying teenager Anne Frank, famed for her diaries, at Belsen.

The 'Bride of Belsen' Gena dies aged 95

Gena Turgel withstood four concentration camps before being freed by the British from Belsen in north Germany in 1945.

The 'Bride of Belsen' dies at 95

Gena Turgel lived through four concentration camps and nursed Anne Frank before behing liberated by the British Army from Belsen in 1945.

Holocaust survivor known as "Bride of Belsen" after marrying solider who liberated her dies aged 95; 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.

'Sweet home, I'll come back to you' SOLDIER'S D-DAY POEM SHARED BY GRANDAUGHTER

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.

Paltry compensation for years of Nazi hell

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.

I Was a Boy in Belsen

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.

Distance from the Belsen Heap; Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

Belsen was the only concentration camp liberated by the British.

Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Death Camp by British troops documented in new book; Memories of Belsen will be evoked when the Queen visits the former concentration camp during a state visit between June 23-26

"They say the birds don't sing at Belsen," he said.

Mantle of horror still serves as a warning

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.

Clowning around..

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.

'I carried his face in my heart for 60 years'

Mady Gerrard is herself a holocaust survivor of the Auschwitz and Belsen camps who came to Wales from Hungary 58 years ago.