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Medical Report (Read with Caution)
Belsen Concentration Camp Visited 22 Apr 45, 6 days after its capture by Second Army. 11,023 total views
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Josephine Bunting
Known as Madge, she was born in December 1918 to parents Lionel and Bessie Bunting of Churchill Road Chipping Norton. 9,442 total views
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Les Hansell
‘The last great heave of war,’ according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine on 24th March 1945. 8,127 total views
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Arthur Tyler (63rd Anti Tank Regiment)
63rd Anti Tank Regiment (QOOH) Queens Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry. 11,227 total views
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Friends Relief Service
Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, relief workers and medical staff entered the camp to provide emergency support. In this blog, Education Officer Jenny Carson looks at the reflections and memories of those who made up the Friends Relief Service. 10,192 total views
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Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Paybody
For nothing could have prepared them as they liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. 10,795 total views
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Clement Edwards
As a newly qualified doctor, Edwards was attached to an 11th Light Field Ambulance (LFA) unit which landed on Sword Beach soon after D-Day; he and his colleagues then joined the Guards Armoured Division as it advanced through France and Belgium to northern Germany. 8,953 total views
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Joyce Parkinson. (FRS)
Of lasting influence on my aunt Joyce Parkinson, who has died aged 94, was the time she spent in Germany at the end of the second world war, initially with a Quaker relief team, which was one of the first civilian teams to enter the concentration camp at Belsen. Their job was to clothe, register and begin to rehabilitate survivors. 9,121 total views
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John Reynolds – Medical Student
“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 May 1945 to help care for survivors wracked by disease and starvation. 9,020 total views
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Lilian Impey (FRS)
On the 21 April 1945, Friends Relief Service (FRS) Team 100 became one of six relief teams (five British Red Cross Commission) to enter Belsen. The team remained at the camp until the 25 May 1945. As the relief body of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), most who joined were committed pacifists. 9,755 total views
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