THE LIBERATION OF BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, MAY 1945 - Jewish camp inmates hold an open air service to celebrate the Jewish Summer Festival of Thanksgiving. The service was led by Rev Leslie H Hardman, Senior Jewish Chaplain to the British 2nd Army, and former camp inmates, Rabbi H Helfgott of Jugoslovia and Rabbi B Goldfinger of Poland. Behind the open air altar internees hold up a tapestry originally owned by the Jewish community in Sicily, which was brought into the camp and hidden by internees until liberation British Army, Royal Army Chaplains' Department

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