TY  - BOOK
AU  - Celinscak,Mark
TI  - Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp 
SN  - 9781442647626
AV  - D805.5.B47 C45 2015eb
U1  - 940.53/1853593 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Concentration camps
KW  - Liberation
KW  - Germany
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Participation, British
KW  - Canada
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Distance From The Belsen Heap Allied Forces And The Liberation Of A Nazi Concentration Camp --; Chapter One. Experience, Narrative, And Meaning: Encountering Bergen-Belsen --; Chapter Two. The Rhine, The Heath, The Wire --; Chapter Three. The Distance Of Presence: Inside Seventy-Two Hours --; Chapter Four. A Camp On Exhibit: Workers, Witnesses, Visitors Descend --; Chapter Five. The Impossible Real: Bergen-Belsen In Art And Photography --; Chapter Six. Padres, Patients, And Pathologies: Medical And Spiritual Relief --; Conclusion. A Past Intensity --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among 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 personnel, 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442668775
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442668775
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442668775/original
ER  -