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Author Celinscak, Mark, 1978- author.

Title Distance from the Belsen heap : Allied forces and the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp / Mark Celinscak
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2015

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Contents Experience, narrative, and meaning : encountering Bergen-Belsen -- The Rhine, the heath, the wire -- The distance of presence : inside seventy-two hours -- A camp on exhibit : workers, witnesses, visitors descend -- The impossible real : Bergen-Belsen in art and photography -- Padres, patients, and pathologies : medical and spiritual relief -- Conclusion : a past intensity
Summary Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
SUBJECT Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation -- Germany -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, British
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY / General
Liberty
Internment camps
Armed Forces
Military participation -- British
SUBJECT Canada -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
Subject Canada
Germany
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442668775
1442668776