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Belsen: Our Story

2020

Documentary, Self: Hannah Atwood, Kate Fleetwood

Documentary. War Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp tell of their experiences of deportation, family destruction, and their own survival, together with the history of its place in the Nazi death camp system and its liberation by the British army in April 1945.

	Media	Author	Review
		Rebecca Nicholson The Guardian	"Survivors of the notorious concentration camp underscore the importance of remembrance in this remarkable documentary (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Hogan Telegraph	"Stubberfield told the story with careful restraint, combining harrowing archive footage with those unflinching and intimate interviews, using narration only sparingly (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Butcher Radio Times	"The accounts here from survivors offer a vivid picture of what the camp was like, and often the details are heartbreaking."
		James Jackson The Times	"Essential (...) What set it apart was how, in one way, it offered a child’s-eye view of the horrors of Nazism (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ed Power Irish Times	"It’s the tiny details that make 'Belsen: Our Story' (...) so horrifying to sit through"

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