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

Richard Elberfeld - American Field Service

My father, Richard Bradford Elberfeld, was a member of the American Field Service, attached to a British unit who liberated Read more

Kenneth Robertson Dempter (Claude) Medical Student

Former consultant pathologist King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor (b 1924; q St Thomas's 1945; MD, FRCPath), d 6 March 2001. Read more

Don Sheppard - Despatch Rider

Ahead of the 75th anniversary of Bergen-Belsen's liberation, former despatch rider Don Sheppard, now 99, recalls what he discovered at Read more

British POW Liberated

My Grandad was also liberated from Bergen-Belsen in Apr 1945. Except My Grandfather was a Highlander in the 51st Highland Read more

Freddie Gilroy - Royal Artillery

Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers is a statue by sculptor Ray Lonsdale which overlooks North Bay of Scarborough, England. Read more

Liberation Day

Despite the camp being entered first on Sunday 15 April 1945, by eight men of the 6th SAS and then Read more

Conrad Wilson (AFS) Letter

Conrad Wilson, wrote, including a few rare recollections he wrote about his role as an ambulance driver with the American Read more

Neville Foote

ONE of Britain’s last surviving D-Day heroes has told how he liberated occupied France armed with only a fold-up bike Read more

Ronald Douglas Clark (113 LAA) Reflection

Below is an extract from a letter written by my father Ronald Douglas Clark to his sister. It is dated Read more

Johanna Hogerzeil (Han)

Dr Han Collis, was a courageous life-long champion of children particularly in Germany's immediate post-war horror, later in Nigeria, India, 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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