John Edward Haywood

Refer to the BBC's WW2 People's War

Comments: This account has several errors that the reader can draw their own conclusions from. (including a possible typing error such as 'When we got to Belsen we’d been walking about 400 miles a day.' These errors include:

1. 'Whilst working on the camp I saw the ovens. Ten ovens just like you would see in a crematorium. The story was that some of the families had had to lock their children in the ovens and then stand there and watch them die.' - There was a single oven crematorium at Belsen.

2. 'In the shower block was the gas chambers.' - There were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen.