Bergen-Belsen 1945 : a medical student's journal / by Michael John Hargrave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hargrave, Michael John.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hargrave, Michael John--Diaries.

Hargrave, Michael John.

Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp).

Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.

Concentration camp inmates.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 92 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation. It was at this time, in April of 1945, that Michael Hargrave answered a notice at the Westminster Hospital Medical School for 'volunteers'. On the day of his departure the 21-year-old learned that he was being sent to Bergen-Belsen, liberated only two weeks before. This firsthand account, a diary written for his mother

Contents:

Foreword; Amnesty International UK; Rotary and Polio; Dr Michael John Hargrave LRCP. MRCS. MRCGP; Diseases at Bergen-Belsen; Epidemic Typhus; Typhoid or Enteric Fever; Acknowledgements; Glossary

Notes:

Foreword by Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF tile page (ebrary, viwed October 17, 2013).

ISBN:

9781783262885

1783262885

9781783263219

1783263210

OCLC:

897427229