IWM Document Archive
"Conditions in the camp were becoming even more chaotic … We took in over 2000 patients into a former 200 bedded Wehrmacht hospital. Attempts to bedpan were futile through lack of staff and pans… Our departure from Belsen was an emotional one, with patients in tears, for a strong bond of affection had developed. I shall never forget waving goodbye to men and women who in the intervening weeks looked less like walking skeletons." |