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Hargrave, Michael John.

Bergen-Belsen 1945 : a Medical Student's Journal. - Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013. - 1 online resource (131 pages)

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781783263219 1783263210

Subjects--Personal Names:
Hargrave, Michael John, 1923-1974.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1939-1945

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nazi concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
World War, 1939-1945.
HISTORY--Western.--Europe

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: D805.G3 L42146 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 940.5318092