The British Broadcasting Corporation, in two separate broadcasts, is marking the 20th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen death camp, which took place on April 15,1945. Last night, the network presented a commemorative television program which included an interview with General Glyn Hughes, who was a medical officer with the Second British Army at the end of the Second World War, and who made superhuman efforts to restore the health of as many of the concentration camp survivors as possible.
On Thursday, the BBC Hebrew Service will present a special program on the anniversary of the camp’s liberation. Those participating will include Gen. Hughes; Josef Rosensaft, chairman of the Association of Belsen Survivors; Dr. I. Levy and Rev. L. Hardman, who served as Army chaplains at the time of the liberation; and S.J. Goldsmith, London correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, who was a war correspondent at the time.
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