If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls

- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945

Mervyn Peake

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God help me! I am small and alone but I must help them; and I most not waste a moment, because every moment another soul dies.

Leslie H. Hardman

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The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.

Muriel Knox Doherty

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There was still something I could do: I could tell the world.

Leslie H. Hardman

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The throbbing engines of the ship and its relentless passage onwards through the sea brought back to us the ever urgency of moving Time, and then we knew that neither they nor we would would ever find again on earth such happiness and full content of mind as all we had known in the Children's Hospital at Belsen Camp when the Devil had been banished and Love crowned king.

Robert Collis

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