This year marks a number of very special anniversaries related to the Holocaust: in particular, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz last January and this week of Belsen ...

The Germans claimed there was a “hospital” in the woods nearby and led the unsuspecting Brits to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they uncovered “hell on Earth”. Half-dead prisoners ...

He also testified in the Belsen trial. John said: “Suddenly I heard my dad being quoted by Angela Rayner – it was incredible. He would have been so proud to have been quoted by her and she ...

Following the war, Mr Le Druillenec gave testimony at the Belsen trials, offering harrowing evidence of the conditions he had survived. In December 1945, he recorded an interview about his ...

He also testified in the Belsen trial. John Wood with his father, Leonard Berney In her speech, Angela Rayner quoted Leonard’s memory of arriving at the camp: “None of us who entered the camp ...

As Bergen-Belsen’s population skyrocketed from roughly 7,300 in July 1944 to 41,000 in March 1945, living conditions rapidly deteriorated. “In Auschwitz, people were murdered in the most ...

Senior Jewish Chaplain to the British 2nd Army, Reverend Leslie Hardman, stands above a mass grave at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on April 23, 1945. Alexander Courtney was a ...