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Medical Students: The London Hospital
Medical Students: The London Hospital 12,300 total views
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Benjamin (Benny) Edwards
My father Benjamin (Benny) Edwards was in the military police and was also sent into liberate Bergen Belsen. 8,545 total views
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Julia Pirie
Elizabeth Mary Julia Pirie, known to her family as Elizabeth but later as Julia was born at Harbury, Warwickshire July 8th, 1918. 8,698 total views
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William Charles Fraser
William Fraser – Ambulance Driver on front. One of the first into Belsen. 10,253 total views
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David Kane (SAS)
My father, a German Jew, was there with the British SAS . He had just turned 23 and lost most of his family, including his mother, who had been deported to Łódź and murdered in Chelmno. 11,134 total views
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Michael Lyne
Michael Lyne joined the fire service in Bodmin when he was just 15 years old in 1942. He says: “Cornwall was a massively busy place. They did a lot of the bombing of the U-Boats pens in France from St Eval. “There were heaps of Canadians Air Force Crews. The Americans were coming and going all the time. “We had eight operational air forces in Cornwall during the war. People seemed to think that nothing happened down here. “We had a training anti-aircraft establishment at Bude, then we came down the operations airfield at Davidstow, then St Merryn, the St Eval, St Mawgan, Perranporth, Nancekuke, and then Predannick on the…
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Alexander Michie (Lt Col)
Dr Alexander Michie, from Durris on Deeside, was the first British medical officer to enter the infamous camp in April 1945 and the scenes of squalor, death and degradation he witnessed rendered him mute on what he saw there for many years. 10,860 total views
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E W Blackbell (113th LAA)
Blackbell, E W (Capt.) (113 LAA) Birth 17 Aug 1912 Sunderland, Durham, England Death 1981 Sunderland, Durham, England 9,283 total views
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Auschwitz and Holocaust Memorial Day
Auschwitz Memorial bring together the most important facts about the last stage of the operation of this German Nazi camp. 9,623 total views
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George Edward Packman – British Red Cross
British Red Cross. 11,801 total views