Bergen Belsen 1945

Author : Ben Shephard
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307424631

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After Daybreak by Ben Shephard Pdf

“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by medical students, Allied soldiers, members of the clergy, ambulance drivers, and relief workers who found themselves utterly unprepared to comprehend, much less tend to, the indescribable trauma of those who survived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British in April 1945 was a defining point in history: the moment the world finally became inescapably aware of the Holocaust. But what happened after Belsen was liberated is still a matter of dispute. Was it an epic of medical heroism or the culmination of thirteen years of indifference to the fate of Europe’s Jews? This startling investigation by acclaimed documentary filmmaker and historian Ben Shephard draws on an extraordinary range of materials–contemporary diaries, military documents, and survivors’ testimonies–to reconstruct six weeks at Belsen beginning on April 15, 1945, and reveals what actually caused the post-liberation deaths of nearly 14,000 concentration camp inmates who might otherwise have lived. Why did it take almost two weeks to organize a proper medical response? Why were the medical teams sent to Belsen so poorly equipped? Why, when specialists did arrive, did they get so much of the medicine plain wrong? For the first time, Shephard explores the humanitarian and medical issues surrounding the liberation of the camp and provides a detailed, illuminating account that is far more complex than had been previously revealed. This gripping book confronts the terrifying aftermath of war with questions that still haunt us today.

Author : Michael John Hargrave
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783263226

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Bergen-Belsen 1945 by Michael John Hargrave Pdf

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation. It was at this time, in April of 1945, that Michael Hargrave answered a notice at the Westminster Hospital Medical School for ‘volunteers’. On the day of his departure the 21-year-old learned that he was being sent to Bergen-Belsen, liberated only two weeks before. This firsthand account, a diary written for his mother, details Michael's month-long experience at the camp. He compassionately relates the horrendous living conditions suffered by the prisoners, describing the sickness and disease he encountered and his desperate, often fruitless, struggle to save as many lives as possible. Amidst immeasurable horrors, his descriptions of the banalities of everyday life and diagrams of the camp's layout take on a new poignancy, while anatomic line drawings detail the medical conditions and his efforts to treat them. Original newspaper cuttings and photographs of the camp, many previously unpublished, add a further layer of texture to the endeavors of an inexperienced medical student faced with extreme human suffering. Readership: Medical professionals, medical students, history students, general public. Key Features:A firsthand account of the conditions in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation in April 1945 from the point of view of a medical student volunteerA number of newspaper cuttings covering the period, collected by Michael Hargrave, are included, as well as photographs and line drawings of the camp and its conditionsSales of the book will financially support two charities: Amnesty International and Polio PlusKeywords:BelsenReviews: “This is in part a clinical diary recording illnesses, diagnoses and treatments. It is written with some distance and objectivity, which must have been difficult to achieve in the circumstances. The diary is also a fascinating glimpse into Hargrave himself and to the expectations that wartime placed on young men and women.” Everyone's War: The Journal of the Second World War Experience Centre “Hargrave's account insists that we must continue to read and learn from past conflict and highlights the importance of the IWM's collections.” LSE Review of Books

Author : Suzanne Bardgett,David Cesarani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128304339

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Belsen 1945 by Suzanne Bardgett,David Cesarani Pdf

Recent years have brought a more intimate understanding of how survivors experienced the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, of the challenge faced by the army and medical relief teams who buried the dead and tried to save lives, how this effort was recorded at the time, and how its memory has been passed on. This volume brings together essays from international experts based on the 60th anniversary seminar held at the Imperial War Museum in 2005. It also includes testimony from survivors, eyewitness accounts from liberators and relief workers, and the scripts of two BBC radio broadcasts. With the benefits of new documentation and a rigorous scholarly approach, this book offers an original and at times controversial reassessment of the camp, its liberation, and the way Belsen is remembered in Britain and Germany.

Author : Mark Celinscak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442615700

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Distance from the Belsen Heap by Mark Celinscak Pdf

Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains.

Author : Jacques Saurel
Publisher : Iggybook
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01T00:00:00+01:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9782304034431

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From Paris to Bergen-Belsen1944-1945 by Jacques Saurel Pdf

Born in 1933, Jacques Saurel might well have known the fate of so many children of Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland between the wars: Auschwitz and the gas chamber. He owed it to his father that he initially had no problems with the authorities. As a volunteer for military service and then a prisoner of war, his father protected Jacques and his family under the Geneva Convention. But the Nazis were looking for hostages to deport. Thus, in early February 1944, Jacques, his oldest sister (the younger one was in hiding) and his little brother were detained with their mother for three months in the Drancy internment camp, before being deported to the _x001A_Star Camp_x001A_, Bergen-Belsen. It

Author : Hanna Lévy-Hass
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608460779

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Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944–1945 by Hanna Lévy-Hass Pdf

A resistance fighter’s “remarkable” memoir of her imprisonment at the infamous Nazi concentration camp (The New Yorker). Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment during World War II, and she stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps—doing so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen. In this volume, her insightful diary is accompanied by an introduction from her daughter, Amira Hass, an Israeli journalist renowned for her reporting from the West Bank and Gaza. “A poignant testimonial . . . Hanna Lévy-Hass was clearly a quite extraordinary woman.”—Tony Judt, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Author : Isaac Levy
Publisher : Halban Publishers
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905559886

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Witness to Evil by Isaac Levy Pdf

In April 1945 Rev. Isaac Levy, Senior Jewish Chaplain to the British Liberation Army, accompanied the Forces into Germany. Only days after Passover celebrations, he entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The prisoners, seeing the Star of David in the cap of this army officer, were exultant. In spite of the enormity of their suffering, they had survived. But further into the camp, within a wire-enclosed area, Isaac Levy found the hell that was Belsen, the barely-living with the dead. Overcome with a sense of utter helplessness, he participated in the deeply disturbing task of burying some 20,000 dead. Medical supplies, food and clean clothing were grossly inadequate. Urgent requests for aid and assistance from organisations in London were sometimes met with great compassion but all too often were inadequate. Isaac Levy was frequently in trouble with the military authorities — they showed a profound lack of understanding of the fact that the Jews could not return to their native lands where they had been persecuted and seen their families sent off to the gas chambers. Now would the authorities countenance a Jewish homeland in Israel.

Author : Erik Somers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113657592

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Jewish Displaced Persons in Camp Bergen-Belsen 1945-1950 by Erik Somers Pdf

Author : Joanne Reilly
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415138272

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Belsen by Joanne Reilly Pdf

The military and medical liberation and British government and British population response to the disclosure of what occurred at Belsen.

Author : Jon Bridgman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015019653446

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The End of the Holocaust by Jon Bridgman Pdf

Author : Hagit Lavsky
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0814330096

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New Beginnings by Hagit Lavsky Pdf

A sociohistorical analysis of the construction of Jewish life and national identity in post-Holocaust Germany.

Author : Ben Flanagan,Donald Bloxham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114151165

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Remembering Belsen by Ben Flanagan,Donald Bloxham Pdf

Bergen-Belsen was the only major Nazi concentration camp to be liberated on the British front, some three weeks before the end of the war in Europe in 1945. This book contains accounts which should ensure that the horrors of the camp are on the record for posterity and cannot be denied or excused. ... Although Soviet forces discovered Majdanek, Auschwitz and other camps on their front in 1944/45, the significance of these sites did not register in the West until much later. It was the atrocities perpetrated at Belsen and Buchenwald, therefore, that became headline news in the Western press in April 1945. The eyewitness reports and testimonies are as profoundly shocking today as they were then; they are gathered in this volume so that they will not be forgotten.

Author : Ann Byers
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766062146

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Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka by Ann Byers Pdf

The Nazis set up concentration and death camps in order to isolate, torture, and murder millions of men, women, and children. In AUSCHWITZ, BERGEN-BELSEN, TREBLINKA: THE HOLOCAUST CAMPS, author Ann Byers details the system of camps in Europe during the Holocaust. Byers recounts the horrifying conditions suffered by camp inmates as well as their struggles for life and hope in a world gone mad. The remains of many camps still stand today to serve as a chilling reminder of the Holocaust. This book is developed from THE HOLOCAUST CAMPS to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.

Author : Leonard Berney
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bergen-Belsen (Germany : Concentration camp)
ISBN : 1511541709

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Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp by Leonard Berney Pdf

This is the only book to be published that recounts the events that led up to the British Army's uncovering of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp and its 60,000 prisoners, how the Army dealt with the unprecedented horror that existed in the camp, how the surviving prisoners were rescued, how the inmates were evacuated, how the Royal Army Medical Corps established the world's largest hospital to care for the many thousands of sick and emaciated ex-inmates, how the survivors were rehabilitated and cared for, how they were repatriated to their own countries, why many thousand refused to return 'home' and the eventual establishment of the Belsen Displaced Persons camp, the largest DP camp in Germany. The author of this book was a senior British Army officer who participated in the liberation of the Camp, who was in charge of evacuating the ex-prisoners to the vast Rehabilitation Camp that the Army set up, and who was then appointed as the Commandant of that Camp until its management was handed over to the United Nations, and who gave evidence against the SS guards at the Belsen War Crimes Trial.

Author : Renata Laqueur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 3981161742

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Diary of Bergen-Belsen by Renata Laqueur Pdf