Belsen 1945 New Historical Perspectives

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.

Suzanne Bardgett led the team which created the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition - the large-scale narrative historical display which regularly receives 700 visitors daily at Imperial War Museum London. David Cesarani is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications include (ed.) Jewis and Port Cities, 1590-1990: Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism (2006), and Eichmann: His Life and Crimes (2004).