The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Welcome this new archive relating and dedicated to the men and women service personnel and the part they played at the Liberation and subsequent Humanitarian Effort of the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp.
UPDATE:
Thank you to everyone who submitted a name/details to coincide with the anniversary of the liberation of Bergen Belsen – we’ll go through all your submissions, moderate and add them on. If you have a photo or any more details please email us. Thank you.

We are now inviting any relatives of service personnel who may have been at the camp to get in touch. Any regiment, service, nationality, volunteer or any snippet of information – we would like to hear from you. We do not believe there are any records of the diverse group of men and women, many completely untrained, who were involved with the camp, after it’s liberation.

Those That Served

Jim Henderson (113th LAA)

Faded photographs which have been weathered by time still convey the brutal horrors a young soldier witnessed when he helped Read more

The Perpetrators at Belsen

At least 480 people, including around 45 women, had worked at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as guards or members of Read more

Walter Gallant

Was at the Liberation of Belsen. No unit info known. Read more

Recognise Anyone?

Furthur still from the cine film taken 23rd/24th April. Can you help recognise anyone from the 113th Durham Light Infantry. Read more

Peter Granville Whateley Smith New

Major Peter Granville Whateley Smith who served in the 94th (Dorset & Hants) Field Regiment R.A. The 94th field artillery Read more

Sir William Melville Arnott

Physician, soldier and university administrator, William Melville Amott, known as 'Melville', was one of the last of a generation of Read more

Charles Philip Sharp (113th LAA)

Charles Philip Sharp, known as Philip, was born on April 2, 1912, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He had a sister Read more

Sgt. Lewis Stagnetto, 317 FSS, Intelligence Corps

In 1942, Lewis Stagnetto volunteered for the Armed Forces, aged 18, at Glasgow.  At the time he had been studying Read more

Eric Trimmer (Medical Student)

Trimmer was born on 11 June 1923 in London. He was educated at King's College London and obtained his M.B.B.S. Read more

History Learning Site Account

When Bergen-Belsen was handed over to British troops in April 1945, little could have prepared them for what they saw Read more

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This site will progress and I’d encourage anyone with any info to get in touch. My granddad, Reg Price served with the 113th Durham Light Infantry*, as part of 369 Battery. As a signwriter, he produced this sign…

And this was kept in the family for years – so for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Belsen in 2020, subsequent VE Day and VJ Day, I thought it’s about time I’d try to find out more about Reg – his comrades (many of which are names, simply written on the back of photos), what they did together and for a way to remember them all, properly.

To coinicide with the anniversary, I was able to be filmed both on national and local BBC TV to tell Reg’s Story.
Whilst this was totally out of my comfort zone and I dreaded every moment – I decided I needed to do something to start this all off. BBC Midlands Today aired 7th May and a VE Day Antiques Roadshow Special aired Sunday 10th May.

Read here about The Heroes of Belsen.

The main photo, shown here was coloured for the 75th Anniversary and we’ll tell you all about it shortly – and what happened next!

*Just 113th Durham Light Infantry? No we are interested in all Service and Medical personnel who took part during the humanitarian effort at Belsen Concentration Camp. Their roles and names are largely forgotten, as many were too horrified to ever speak of what they had to do, so this archive seeks to form a tribute to ALL those that were there, to find out more and to remember them.
If you have a relative, or any info, on the relief effort at Belsen, we’d love you to please get in touch. Email us: liberator@belsen.co.uk – Thank you

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The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

Any 113th Durham Light Infantry friends or family are encouraged to get in touch via 113th@belsen.co.uk

** In 1938 the old 5th Battalion DLI changed its role to Searchlights and then in 1940 to Anti-Aircraft. This 113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment went to Normandy in June 1944 and joined the advance into Germany in early 1945.
Official designation – Brigade: 100 AA • Division: 30 Corps. • Unit: 113 LAA Regt. RA (DLI) TA.

The Liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp
Names of British soldiers who liberated Belsen

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