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Notebook containing pithy but striking ms notes (43pp) kept by him in May 1945 while serving as a Red Cross volunteer (a medical student of St Thomas' Hospital) in the operation to relieve Belsen concentration camp, giving brief details on patients he attended there, including short background history (especially their earlier camps and suffering), their physical state, symptoms, diagnoses, treatment and, where relevant, cause of death; together with a ts letter (2pp) written from Belsen, 5 May 1945, giving good descriptions of how he came to be working there, the history of the camp as he learned it, conditions there, the work, makeshift medicine and treatment; his ms/ts/cyclostyled case notes and post mortem reports (33pp) on Belsen victims; patient registration forms; and cyclostyled notes on the treatment of starvation (3pp, 3 April 1945) issued by 21st Army Group.
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Catalogue date 1991-05
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Cataloguer PHR
