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Concentration camps

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Belsen, 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/COWL H
Scope and Contents

Official photos taken after the liberation of the Belsen [Germany] concentration camp by the 2nd Army.

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Clementine Churchill": letters from MS to CSC and Winston Churchill, 1945, 1945-01 - 1945-10

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/116
Scope and Contents Letters written mainly while MS was in Belgium and Germany with her ATS unit [Auxiliary Territorial Service]. Other subjects besides MS's ATS work include: a visit to Paris [France]; driving through the wreck of Hamburg; visiting the site of Belsen; reaction in the forces to the General Election campaign; the Potsdam Conference; the success of CSC's visit to the Soviet Union; an inspection by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery; the loss of the General Election; buying 27 Hyde Park Gate...
Dates: 1945-01 - 1945-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary including GNWR's impressions of the German concentration camp at Belsen, 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/GNWR 1/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The most interesting items in the collection are the diaries, interleaved with letters and papers, which Lord Gordon-Walker kept throughout his political career and which shed fascinating light upon his fellow Members of Parliament and Cabinet Ministers and upon the events and personalities involved in international -and especially Commonwealth - affairs. There are numerous articles and speeches by Lord Gordon-Walker together with notes and reviews pertaining to his book ‘The Cabinet’ and a...
Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Geoffrey Amery: letters from Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp, 1913-12 - 1924-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/4/23
Scope and Contents

Includes: letters from Amery to AFA while interned in Germany; correspondence between LSA and the Prisoners of War Department on a possible exchange of prisoners; letters of sympathy and official details on Amery's death.

Dates: 1913-12 - 1924-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Naval reminiscences and records, 1918 - 1955

Reference Code: GBR/0014/HUHT 2
Scope and Contents

Includes: letters of appointment to posts and promotions (1918-55); war data (1946); Hughes-Hallett's naval reminiscences (1955); letter from the Admiralty on Hughes-Hallett's retirement (1955); articles by others; and narratives of British repatriates from Japanese prisoner of war camps (Nov 1945)

Dates: 1918 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.