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.
List of Illustrations vii(2) Acknowledgements ix PART I: INTRODUCTION 3(34) Approaching Belsen: An Introduction 3(34) Tony Kushner David Cesarani Jo Reilly Colin Richmond PART II: THE HISTORY OF BERGEN-BELSEN 37(88) Bergen-Belsen: From `Privileged Camp to Death Camp 37(35) Christine Lattek Himmler and Bergen-Belsen 72(13) Richard Breitman Jewish Religious Life in the Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen 85(40) Thomas Rahe PART III: THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN 125(56) French Internees and British Liberators 125(9) Annette Wieviorka The British Army and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen April 1945 134(15) Paul Kemp Cleaner, Carer and Occasional Dance Partner? Writing Women Back into the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen 149(13) Jo Reilly A Community of Survivors: Bergen-Belsen as a Jewish Centre after 1945 162(19) Hagit Lavsky PART IV: CONCLUSION 181(28) The Memory of Belsen 181(28) Tony Kushner APPENDIX: BELSEN TESTIMONIES: THE CAMP AND ITS LIBERATION 209(41) Helen Bamber 209(2) Esther Brunstein 211(3) M.R.D. Foot 214(5) Alfred Garwood 219(4) Eryl Hall Williams 223(2) Leslie Hardman 225(8) Anita Lasker-Wallfisch 233(5) Isaac Levy 238(5) L.G.R. Wand 243(1) W.R. Williams 244(6) Notes to Contributors 250(5) Index 255
Edited by Cesarani, David; Kushner, Tony; Reilly, Jo; Richmond, Colin
