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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. 16,727 total views
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Norman Ernest Scarsbrook
Born in August 1920, Norman had worked as a builder’s labourer before the war. He enlisted into the Royal Army Service Corps and was in France with the British Expeditionary force, being evacuated from Dunkirk in May 1940. 14,948 total views
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Dennis Lewis
He was born in July 1913 in Chipping Norton and before the war worked as a solicitor’s clerk, living at 62, New Street. 15,109 total views
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Eryl Hall Williams (FRS)
On April 21st, 1945, a team from the Friends [Quakers] Relief Service arrived to help clear the camp, to comfort the many dying inmates, and to care as best they could for the surviving ones. 15,157 total views
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Richard Dimbleby “Witness History”
How the first report from Belsen concentration camp shocked the world. 7,184 total views
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Sgt. Mike Lewis (AFPU)
Son of Jewish Polish refugees who had migrated to Britain before WWI, Cameraman Sergeant Mike Lewis was part of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) who filmed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He and his wife followed his daughters to Australia in his later years. 19,227 total views
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Patrick Moore. No.3 Commando
I would like to submit my grandads details. His name was Patrick Moore, he was a rifleman in No.3 commando. He told me he was at Belsen when the bodies were being moved into pits, which he helped with. Possibly attached to 2nd army group but he didn’t give many details. 15,702 total views
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Bill Diack –
Bill Diack, who received the Legion d’honneur in 2017, was among the Scots who strove to ease the suffering of the Belsen victims. 16,532 total views
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Elizabeth Dearden (nee Clarkson)
A much-loved member of the Quaker community in Totnes, who was one of the first relief workers to arrive at Belsen when the notorious concentration camp was liberated, has died at the age of 93. 17,758 total views
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Lt. Alan Wilson (AFPU) OR Lt. Martyn Wilson
Lt Alan Wilson of Glasgow, is dusted with DDT (to protect him from typhus) before entering the camp. 20th April 1945. Original caption. This photo was taken by Sgt Harry Oakes (AFPU). 15,491 total views
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