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Author : Joanne Reilly
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415138272
The military and medical liberation and British government and British population response to the disclosure of what occurred at Belsen.
Author : Leonard Berney
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bergen-Belsen (Germany : Concentration camp)
ISBN : 1511541709
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 : Ben Shephard
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307424631
“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 : David Cesarani,Tony Kushner,Jo Reilly,Colin Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135251307
Drawing on documentary and oral sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Dutch and French, this book challenges many sterotypes about Belsen, and reinstates the groups hitherto marginalized or ignored in accounts of the camp and its liberation.
Author : David Lowther
Publisher : Sacristy Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908381910
This book relates the story of the soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry who uncovered the monstrous crimes of Bergen-Belsen seventy years ago, and the traumatic effect this had on their lives.
Author : Suzanne Bardgett,David Cesarani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128304339
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 : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473838598
Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi's most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS's murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another disturbing side to them relaxing in their barracks or visiting their families and loved ones.The book is an absorbing insight into how the SS played a key part in murdering, torturing and starving to death tens of thousands of inmates. During the latter part of the war as many as 500 a day were perishing from the long-term effects of starvation as well as the resultant diseases. There is a wealth of information on how the camp was run and all aspects of life inside the camp for the inmates are covered. The final episode of Belsen is witnessed by British soldiers of the Second Army, who were completely unprepared for what they encountered when they arrived at the gates of the camp. Inside the camp they found some 10,000 unburied dead in addition to the mass graves already containing 40,000 more corpses.This latest Images of War book captures the shocking story of those that ran Belsen, those that perished, and the troops that liberated the living from their hell.
Author : David Lowther
Publisher : Sacristy Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908381934
This book relates the story of the soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry who uncovered the monstrous crimes of Bergen-Belsen seventy years ago, and the traumatic effect this had on their lives.
Author : Ben Flanagan,Donald Bloxham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114151165
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 : Dan Stone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300216035
A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed When tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to light. It was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners, yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors—their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors’ immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead.
Author : Bernice Lerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1398112348
New in paperback - The story of the British officer who was first to arrive at Bergen-Belsen, and the life of one of the many he saved from near-death.
Author : Bernice Lerner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421437712
The first book to pair the story of a Holocaust victim with that of a liberator, All the Horrors of War compels readers to consider the full, complex humanity of both.
Author : Jon Bridgman,Richard Hutton Jones
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001843827
Pp. 17-31 describe the liberation of the eastern camps (mainly Majdanek and Auschwitz) by the Soviet army. Pp. 33-102 give details on the liberation of five other camps - Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Theresienstadt. Discusses policies of Nazi leaders and camp commandants between July 1944-May 1945 in view of the advancing Allied forces, the circumstances of the liberation of each camp, and their effect on American and European perceptions of the war. Pp. 121-136 contain three accounts, by survivors, of their liberation: Clara Greenbaum (Bergen-Belsen), Simon Wiesenthal (Mauthausen), and Elie Wiesel (Buchenwald).
Author : Mark Celinscak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442668782
The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp’s liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. 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. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience.
Author : Elizabeth Stewart,Ashley Ekins
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781877568886
The history of warfare and the history of medicine are closely intertwined. War has been an accelerator of advances in medical treatment and surgery. As modern weaponry became more destructive, medicine developed techniques and procedures to deal with the volume and nature of battlefield casualties. Preventative medicine has also increased the effectiveness of fighting forces through improvements in soldiers' health and disease resistance.This book is a collection of chapters by historians, medical practitioners and researchers, former and serving military medical officers, surgeons, nurses and veterans, who explore the impact of war, wounds and trauma through the historical record, reported narratives and personal experiences. The book includes major sections on World War One (including chapters on shell shock and plastic surgery), World War Two (including a chapter on the Nazi death camps), the Vietnam War (including chapters on Agent Orange and sexually transmitted diseases), together with chapters on the Korean War and the current conflict in Afghanistan. In addition, the book includes several personal stories in which veterans describe their experiences of injury and recovery. War Wounds is a truly unique book, which offers considerable insights into an aspect of war that is often mentioned but seldom examined as it is here. Medical professionals, military personnel and the general public will all find it a remarkably revealing read.