This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. At the Imperial War Museum in London, academics and survivors assemble on the occasion ...
Hagit Lavsky, New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945–1950 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002); Dan Stone, The Liberation of the Camps (New ...
Tens of thousands of people, most of them Jews, died at Belsen in northern Germany There had been rumours. There had been aerial photographs. There had been the written testimony of a few escapees.
Belsen survivor Harold Osmond le Druillenec, a Channel Islander, recounts the appalling conditions inside the concentration camp during its final days, describing it as "the foulest and vilest spot ...
"It deeply affected him and his trust in human nature," says Anne Stephenson of her father John Reynolds, one of 95 London medical students who arrived at the notorious Belsen concentration camp in ...
We follow the grim trail of SS commandant Josef Kramer, the man history remembers as the Beast of Belsen. Starting with his ...
Editor’s Note: Queen Elizabeth II is slated to visit the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on Friday. CNN speaks with camp survivor Mala Tribich ahead of the visit. This article ...
Jonathan Dimbleby explores the legacy of the Belsen Nazi concentration camp. Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby traces his war correspondent father’s footsteps, exploring the liberation and legacy of the ...
Editor’s Note: Queen Elizabeth II is slated to visit the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on Friday. CNN speaks with camp survivor Mala Tribich ahead of the visit. This article ...