Letters from Belsen 1945 An Australian nurse's experiences with the survivors of war

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781865082226
  • 01 juli 2000
  • 256 pagina's
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When British troops arrived at Beslen concentration camp in April 1945, they found 40,000 desperately ill prisoners who had been withheld food and water for a week, and 10,000 unburied bodies. Muriel Knox Doherty arrived as Chief Nurse, and in her letters to home, describes her experiences.



When British troops arrived at Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 they found 40,000 desperately ill men, women and children and 10,000 unburied dead bodies. In a final act of cruelty the Germans had withheld food and water from the inmates for a week. Typhus was raging and conditions were chaotic.Muriel Knox Doherty arrived soon after as Chief Nurse with the task of creating a hospital, scrounging supplies and saving as many of the camp survivors as possible. In letters written to her mother and friends in Australia, Doherty describes her experiences at Belsen in moving detail. She tells of the plight of Jewish survivors unable to return home, and the challenge of rebuilding their health and their self-respect. She is inundated with appeals from desperate families trying to find their loved ones among the camp survivors and the many displaced people at Belsen. For one particularly memorable day she attends the Luneberg Trials as Belsen survivors gave evidence against war criminals. One of the few accounts of a concentration camp written by a non-Jew, this remarkable collection of letters is illustrated with drawings by one of the Belsen survivors and period photographs. It is a compassionate tale of the effects of war and the effort made to heal Europe after World War II.

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01 juli 2000
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Hoofdauteur
Muriel Knox Doherty
Tweede Auteur
Judith Cornell
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R Lynette Russell
Hoofdredacteur
Judith Cornell
Tweede Redacteur
R.Lynette Russell
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Allen & Unwin

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