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• Belsen: April 1945

  (art) Made by: Zinkeisen, Doris Clare 1945-04-01

  image: The emaciated figures of a pile of corpses lying on the ground. Their limbs are splayed, and their clothes barely cover their bodies. They lie in a mound against a dark, abstract background.

• Doctors Attending a Wounded Soldier in a Shattered Building behind the Rhine : Immediately after the crossing, 1945

  (art) Made by: Taylor, Eric Wilfred 1945

  image: a patient lies on a makeshift bed in a derelict room. His face is obscured by one doctor wearing a gown leaning over him. Two other doctors stand at the bottom of the bed, putting the patients leg in to a splint.

• Xanten : From which a British Army crossing of the Rhine was made

  (art) Made by: Taylor, Eric Wilfred 1945

  image: a bomb-damaged cathedral, surrounded by ruined houses, rubble and burnt trees.

• Human Wreckage at Belsen Concentration Camp, 1945

  (art) Made by: Taylor, Eric Wilfred 1945

  image: a large number of skeletal dead bodies lying naked on the ground. The foremost body is covered in a blanket and there is the body of a woman lying face up, almost as if still alive, in the centre of the composition.

• Victory Parade at Bremerhaven: 12th May 1945

  (art) Made by: Payne, Edward Raymond 1945-05-12

  image: A view looking down on a street hung with allied flags, from a bomb damaged building. A row of soldiers wearing Scotch Bonnets and black berets stand on the balcony below, also looking down towards the street. They watch a procession of Sherman...

• Queueing for the Dentist : Milag Nord Hospital

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1944-04-01

  image: a line of men stand in a queue outside a low wooden hut with a fence.

• Lieutenant Woods RNR : Who supervised the distribution of Red Cross parcels and food in Marlag 'O'

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1944-02-01

  image: a portrait of Lieutenant Woods sitting at a table with a pen his hand. Behind him are shelves full of small boxes and parcels marked with the Red Cross logo. There are similar boxes on the floor, around the table.

• Takki's Table in the POW 'Gambling Den', Milag Nord : Takki was reputed to be the richest man in camp

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1944-04-01

  image: a group of men gather around a table on which one man is counting out money and piles of tokens. On the far left another man is spinning a vertical roulette wheel.

• A Stove with Pots made from Red Cross Parcel Tins, Dulag Nord

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1944

  image: a stove with home-made pans and cups, fashioned from wire and tin cans.

• Saturday Night Racing ; Milag Jockey Club

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John

  image: a view down a long room, in which a table divided by 'jumps' is being used a miniature race track. There are wooded cut-out horses at various points along the track with one at the finish line, in the foreground. The race is being watched by...