Belsen

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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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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 had been a concentration camp where inmates died of starvation and disease.

Mantle of horror still serves as a warning

Leonard gave evidence at the Belsen War Crimes Trial in September 1945 against camp commandant Joseph Kramer - the Beast of Belsen.

Belsen was like walking into hell; Brit soldier relives camp of death on 70th anniversaryEXCLUSIVE

Mady Gerrard, a survivor of both Auschwitz and Belsen, now living in Chepstow, at City Hall yesterday

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

She will be dedicating her talk to Lieutenant John Randall who liberated her as a young prisoner in Belsen.

Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration in Cardiff

This commemorates 20,000 Russian prisoners killed at Belsen (These were prisoners of war).

Remember our Russian allies

In an extract, Major Jump briefly describes her first thoughts of Belsen, the camp where Anne Frank died: "Belsen's less sordid side, as it's well known, the terrible No1 Camp generally known as the Horror Camp was destroyed by fire, but even then a strange, eerie atmosphere pervades the place.

Pretty porcelain eyes that reflect a legacy of terror

The sections devoted to Belsen and to the sufferings of soldiers in Japanese POW camps, once read, will not easily be forgotten.

Dunkirk to Belsen: The Soldiers' Own Dramatic Stories

At the end of the war, he took part in the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany.