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Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

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Winner of the 2016 Vine Award for Nonfiction


The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to terms with the ones images over the course of the following seventy years. At the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military team of workers struggled with the serious experience of the camp; how they attempted to explain what that they had seen, heard, and felt to these back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the up to now unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians some of the camp’s liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville.


Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical team of workers, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience.

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