adaptation, 48, 72, 94, 117, 176
Advertiser (Adelaide), 3
Agnew, Colonel, 206
air-conditioning, 37, 77
air-raid shelters, 38, 58, 133, 134-5
alcohol, 194
Allied Control Commission (ACC), 13, 118
Ambon, 159
ambulance services, 34—5, 43, 54, 66, 145, 157, 192
American Field Service, 35
Americans, 7, 12, 93
Auschwitz, 114, 166, 182, 184; extermination, 28, 50, 54, 65; identification numbers, 72, 75; Luneberg trials, 153, 156—60, 162; survivor’s story, 127, 129—33
Australia, 3—5, 18, 74, 100, 121, 202, 213
Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 4, 210
Australian Red Cross, 208
Australians, 12, 17, 19-20, 35, 56, 86, 94
Bach, Ella, 97
Backhouse, Colonel, 161-2
Baker, Clarrie, 3
barbed wire, 35, 36, 42, 58, 59, 65, 131, 146, 170
Barstch, Louise, 94, 97
Bartels, 201
Beardwell, Miss, 54—5
beds, 77, 179; camp bunks, 42, 43, 128, 131, 132; hospital, 38, 71, 73, 106, 109, 115; see also blankets and linen
bedside nursing, 99, 119, 137-8
Belgians, 66, 93
Belgium, 19—20, 143
Bendel, Sigismund Charles, 155
Bengal famine mixture, 49
Bergen-Belsen (concentration camp), 10, 25, 117, 126, 164; German Army facilities, 36—9; memorial services, 56-7, 59, 78, 141—2, 165, 172, 205, 205—6; name changed to Hohne, 148; site layout, 28, 35—9, 40, 41, 58—60, 141, 170, 205; UNRRA role, 174, 205, 214—15; see also liberation; war crime trials
Bergen-Belsen area, 27, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 48
Berlin, Franz, 72-3
Bernay—Ficklin, Major General, 155
Bernhart, Emile, 121
Bidstrup, Dr Lesley, 86
Bird, Colonel H. L., 56-7
blankets and linen, 115, 184, 193; control problems, 111—13, 179—80, 194; shortages, 64, 108, 179; used to make clothing by DPs, 74, 112—13, 117—18, 166
Boissier, Miss, 208
Bormann, Juana, 154—5, 186, 203 bread, 12, 37, 43, 47, 50, 52, 62—3, 100, 129, 131, 132, 133, 143, 191
Bremen, 27, 127
British Army, 85, 93-4; 2nd Army, 34, 56, 170; 8th Corps, 33—4; 21st Army Group, 19, 23, 26, 49, 135—6; 30th Army Corps, v, 26—7; 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment, 34; food ration scales, 48—9, 62-3, 76—7, 190—1, 216—24; see also liberation
British Barley Corn Plan, 87
British Broadcasting Commission (BBC), 22, 170—1, 174, 186—8
British Casualty Clearing Station (CCS), 34, 35, 48, 53
British General Hospital, 35, 71, 88, 137, 178
British medical students, 36, 50—1, 54—5, 59
British Military Government, 34, 85—90 passim, 100, 106, 169; see also Luneberg trials
British Military Police, 140, 154, 168
British nurses, 54—5, 71, 94, 95, 118, 119, 137
British Officers Club (Hamburg), 119, 139
British Red Cross Society (BRCS), 17, 34—5, 42, 54, 55, 57, 65, 71, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 91, 175, 191, 206
British Zone, 21, 33, 81, 90, 91, 120, 168, 203, 206
Britten, Benjamin, 78
Brunehilde, 28-9
burials, see mass graves
Burns, Lottie, 102—4
Butler, Miss, 4
camp records, 34, 44, 65, 78, 135
camp security, 36, 122—3, 131; curfews, 53, 109, 122—3; escort for women, 85; observation towers, 36, 58, 142; sirens, 109, 188; see also barbed wire
Campbell, Fauna, 19—20, 35, 56, 63
Canadian nurses, 93, 94, 97, 115, 193
cannibalism, 43, 145
Celie, 115—16
cemeteries, 105, 164, 165; see also mass graves
censorship, 11, 117, 144, 203
Central Intelligence Bureau (CIB), 116
Central Jewish Committee, 121, 182
ceremonies and rituals, 100; see also Italian ceremonies; Jewish ceremonies; memorial services; Polish ceremonies; religious ceremonies
cheese-making, 147, 149
Chetwode, Field Marshall Lord, 81
children, 12, 22, 29, 66, 72—4, 76, 79, 94, 120, 130, 175, 179, 182—3, 198
children’s hospitals, 107; Glyn Hughes Hospital, 60, 72—4, 115, 120, 166; original, 55, 62, 65, 72, 89, 169
Christians, 129
Christmas, 131, 201, 203
churches, 79—80
Churchill, Winston, 6, 11, 20, 62
cigarettes, 17, 95, 179
cinemas, 37, 77, 79
circumcision, 198-200
cleaning materials, 71, 91, 92, 115, 166
cleansing operations, 53—5, 58, 59, 65—6, 90—2, 184
clothing, 79, 119, 176; baby clothing, 80, 115, 185, 196; levy on Germans, 74, 179; made by DPs, 74—5, 112—13, 117—18, 166, 179, 182; see also prison uniforms
clothing stores, 65, 74—5, 76, 79
Collis, Professor W. R. F., 72, 80
communism, 101, 149, 181, 190
concentration camps, 35, 54, 114, 182, 186—8, 199, 206; survivors’ stories, 127-36, 142—5, 146; see also Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen (concentration camp)
concerts, 77-81 passim, 115—16, 182, 198
Concord General Repatriation Hospital, 211
cooking, 35, 37, 59, 63, 76-7, 107, 147, 149, 169, 183
cooking staff, 76, 92-3, 107
crematoria, 28—9, 35, 36, 50, 59, 131, 156—9
Crips, Captain, 55
curfews, 53, 109, 122-3
customs services, 4-5, 19
Czech Jews, 28—9, 127—36, 146
Czechoslovakia, 120, 149
Czechs, 76, 93, 116
Dachau, 182
Dagford, 29, 94
dances, 79, 81, 139—40, 168, 198
Davis, Dr W. A., 26, 28, 33
DDT, 54, 55, 58, 61, 72, 106
death rates, 42, 50, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64, 144, 170—1, 205—6
decorations, 77, 80, 81, 100, 146
dehydration, 48, 107
Deimas-Marsalet, J., 189, 190
Delaney, Doris, 94, 194
delousing, 53-4, 59, 100, 184
demonstrations and riots, 37, 105, 107, 141, 147, 181—2, 195
diarrhoea, 43, 48, 49, 63, 88
Dimbleby, Richard, 170—1
diphtheria, 113, 115
diseases, 63, 115, 176, 178; see also tuberculosis; typhus
disinfectants, 38, 71, 137; see also DDT
dogs, 59, 108, 122, 130, 131, 132, 155, 161, 162
Doherty, Muriel Knox, 2, 10, 96, 209; accommodated in German farmhouse, 29, 85, 86—7; appointed UNRRA Chief Nurse for Poland, 202—3, 204, 212; attends dinner to hear King’s speech, 100; attends DP concerts, 78—9; attends Jewish ceremonies, 121, 141—2, 182, 197, 198—200; attends Polish wedding, 79—80; attends reception for Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, 81; awarded Royal Red Cross Medal (1st Class), 170, 186; BBC broadcast, 170—1, 186—8, 189, 190; biographical note, 207—12; dines with Menuhin and Britten, 77—8; early career, 116, 208, 210; godmother to DP babies, 114, 122, 176—7, 196; handmade gifts from patients, 117, 118, 167; intruder episode, 86—7; meets Brigadier Glyn Hughes, 141; travels from Australia to Bergen-Belsen, 3—7, 11—14, 16—24, 26—9; visits Horror Camp, 58—60; visits Lubeck, 145—6; see also Glyn Hughes Hospital
dolls, 166, 167
domestic staff, 63, 86, 89, 108, 109, 113, 122, 140, 148, 182
drugs, 64, 115, 138
Dutch, 72—3, 168, 178
electricity supply, 43, 107, 109, 122, 134, 139
emergency hospitals, 35, 49, 53-5, 58—9, 62—5 passim, 70, 71, 120
emergency measures, see liberation
epidemics, 178, 208; see also typhus
Evangelical Deaconesses, 98
exhibitions, 146, 165—6, 167, 196
exposure, 114, 127, 131, 132, 144; sleeping outdoors, 108, 117; unsheltered prisoners at Bergen-Belsen, 27, 35, 53, 58, 144
Falingbostel, 76
families, 65, 80-1, 95, 99, 106, 128, 131, 131-2, 165
Fanshaw, Major General, 206
Ferenc, 92-3
Fischer, Adolf, 128, 129
flags, 24, 56, 57, 59, 72—5 passim, 78, 100, 105
flies, 55, 72, 80, 85, 137
food: huge quantities in German store-rooms, 37; pilfering, 47, 50, 62, 91—2, 93, 137, 191, 202—3; see also bread; milk and milk products; national dishes; potatoes; soup; starvation
food cravings, 49, 50
food parcels, 121, 191
food rations, 12-13, 17, 19, 107, 121, 128, 147, 161, 184; British Army scales, 48—9, 62—3, 76—7, 190—1, 216—24
forced labour, see slave workers
forced marches, 29, 35, 127, 129, 144
France, 21, 116, 142-3, 143, 186—8, 189, 190
Franciscan nuns, 71, 78
Free Nurses, 98
French, 71, 78, 94, 105, 133, 142—3
fuel, 77, 107, 108, 111, 112, 139—40, 169, 176, 179, 193
furniture and fittings, 91-4 passim, 93—4, 115, 169—70, 184
gas chambers, 28—9, 50, 54, 72, 128, 132, 156-60, 182, 183
gastro-intestinal diseases, 63, 72, 106—7, 115
Gaudioso, Gerado, 77
George VI, 11, 100, 211
German Army, 6, 33—4, 44, 53, 81, 87, 166; see also German Panzer Training Barracks; German SS
German countryside, 24, 27, 58, 59, 85, 111, 146, 149, 153
German doctors, 98, 106—7, 114, 138, 168, 178; SS human experiments, 50, 156, 158
German farms, 24, 27, 29, 38, 85-6, 87, 89, 194; raided by DPs, 67, 94, 188, 194
German hospitals, 43, 53, 145, 147
German Jews, 129, 142—5, 159-60, 183
German Military Hospital, see Glyn Hughes Hospital
German nurses, 62, 71, 119—20, 175, 200; accommodation, 89, 108; German matrons, 97—8, 106, 108, 118, 146, 168, 188, 190, 193; influenced by Nazism, 98—9, 107, 118, 146, 168, 201; leave racket, 97—8, 106; letter from German nurse, 102-4; nursing skills, 99, 106, 115, 119, 137—8, 169, 201; Oberschwester, 179-80, 184, 185, 203; supervision, 54, 60, 64
German Officers Club, see Round House
German Panzer Training Barracks, 35, 36—9, 44, 48, 53, 181
German Red Cross Nursing Sisterhood, 89, 97—9 passim, 118, 119, 157, 160
German sick and destitute, 53, 65, 81, 147, 174, 175
German spies, 166
German SS, 47, 114, 119; atrocities, 35, 36, 43—4, 59, 166, 170-1, 199; destroy camp records, 34, 44, 65, 78; force Jews to commit atrocities, 65, 127-8, 156—8; medical experiments, 50, 156, 158; pre-liberation starvation of prisoners, 33, 43, 47, 48, 144—5; survivors’ accounts, 127—36, 142-5, 155-62; under British Army, 34, 55—6; see also forced marches; slave workers; war crime trials
Germany, 67, 79; Germany for the Germans movement, 168; surrenders Bergen-Belsen, 33—4; violates liberation truce, 43-4, 47—8, 53, 65, 78; war damage, 22—4, 119, 127, 133, 134-5, 145-6
Germany for the Germans, 168
Gillet, Miss, 94
glucose, 49, 106
Glyn Hughes, Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn, 34, 56, 57, 141, 161, 170—1
Glyn Hughes Children’s Hospital, 60, 72-4, 115, 120, 166
Glyn Hughes Hospital, 62, 73, 84, 140—1, 147; clinics, 176; conditions on UNRRA takeover, 137—8; control of blankets and linen, 108, 111—13, 117—18, 179-80, 193, 194; dances in wards, 139—40, 168; dietary considerations, 63, 107, 147, 149, 190—1; drug administration, 115, 138; exhibitions of patients’ handcrafts, 146, 165—6, 167; food shortages, 106-7, 147, 190—1; former German Military Hospital facilities, 38-9, 39, 40; fuel shortages, 107, 108, 111, 112, 139—40, 169, 176, 179, 193; German doctors, 106-7, 114, 138, 168, 178; hospital supplies, 114—15, 137, 138, 173, 176; isolation wards, 169, 183; language problems, 140, 192, 193, 201—2; laundry, 191—2, 193; medical staff, 114, 168, 178; occupational therapy, 116—17, 165—6, 167, 182; overcrowding, 106, 137; pilfering, 109, 137, 169-70, 184, 191, 202-3; rumours, 140, 147, 174; security, 98, 106, 137, 166; Tb patients, 80, 81, 101, 109—10, 115, 120, 192—4; water and electricity supply, 107, 109, 122, 139, 140, 200—1; see also German nurses; UNRRA nursing team
Glyn Hughes Maternity Hospital, 73—4, 87, 106, 112, 176, 185, 196
Glyn Hughes Mothers Convalescent Home, 176—7, 184—5, 198-200
Goering, Hermann, 22, 55, 176
Grese, Irma, 154, 155, 160, 161, 186, 203
gypsies, 73, 77, 79, 93, 94, 140, 156, 165-6, 167, 179, 183
Hamburg, 27, 97—8, 119, 127, 133, 134—5, 145—6
handcrafts, 72—6 passim, 79-81 passim, 117, 118, 198; exhibitions of patients’ work, 146, 165—6, 167, 196; see also sewing materials
hangings, 36, 127—8, 129, 143, 160, 186, 203
Hanover, 74, 194
Harrods (camp clothing store), 65, 74—5, 76
heating, 38, 94, 108, 111, 139—40, 176
Himmler, Heinrich, 55, 158
Hitler, Adolf, 57, 59, 72—3, 99, 166, 195—6
Hoessler, 158—60
Hohne, see Bergen-Belsen (concentration camp)
Holland, 20—1, 22, 50, 143, 168
hospital admissions and discharges, 65, 75, 106, 108, 117’ 169
hospital dispensaries, 55, 58—9, 138
hospital security, 98, 105, 106, 119, 137, 166
hospitals, see British General Hospital; children’s hospitals; emergency hospitals; German Hospitals; Glyn Hughes Hospital; maternity hospitals; mental hospitals; Round House
housekeepers, 86, 94—5, 108, 122, 140, 141, 182
Hungarian domestic staff, 63, 89, 91—3 passim, 95, 113
Hungarian Jews, 95, 114, 166, 167, 183
Hungarian soldiers, 34, 36, 43, 44, 47, 51, 53, 55, 89, 112, 141, 142, 160, 193
huts, 36, 42—3, 55, 56—7, 59
identification, 59, 127, 132, 134, 142—3; camp records destroyed, 34, 44, 65, 78; tattoos, 72, 75, 119, 130; see also missing persons
infant care, 80, 106—7, 184, 185, 196
infants, 114, 176—7, 198—200
influenza, 178, 208
International Communist Brigade, 142
international relief missions, 57, 66
intruders, 86—7, 93
inventories, 90, 111—12, 115, 179—80, 194
isolation wards, 169, 183
Italian ceremonies, 105, 114
Jackson, Mrs, 96
Japan, 100, 193
Jewish ceremonies, 121, 141—2, 182, 198—200, 205—6
Jewish schools, 182—3, 198
Jews, 29, 65, 95, 167, 174, 191, 198, 199, 212; forced to commit atrocities, 65, 127—8, 156—8; repatriation, 67, 181, 182—3, 198, 200, 202, 298; see also Czech Jews; German Jews; Hungarian Jews; Polish Jews; Romanian Jews
Johnstone, Colonel]. A. D., 34, 53, 56, 57
Jorlan, Mademoiselle, 121
Kavohlat, 128-9
Keitel, Wilhelm, 176
kindergartens, 76, 182
Kitler, Herr, 166
Klein, Dr, 154, 155, 159—61, 186
Kluzer, Dr, 168
Koppa, Ameri-go, 114, 122
Kotz, Doli, 121
Kramer, Joseph, 100; hanged, 186, 203; pre-trial imprisonment, 36, 37-8, 115, 194; trial, 140, 154, 155, 158—60, 162
Kramer, Rosa, 140, 182
Kuschenblatt, Lola, 198
Lajor, 92—3
Lampe, Paul, 116
language, 21, 27, 73, 77, 79, 92, 95, 98, 121—2, 140, 142, 153, 155—6, 183, 186, 192—3, 201—2
Latvian nurses, 71, 97, 98, 106, 174
Layton, Dr Tubby, 18, 19, 23, 33
Lazecko, Miss, 193
Le Deuillence, Harold, 162
Leach, Dr C. N., 49
Lenka, 127—36, 146
letter-writing, 127, 133, 144
liberation, 33—44, 47—68; British take over, 33—4, 135—6, 170; burial of dead, 36, 42, 55—6, 58, 141; ceremonial burning of huts, 56—7, 59; cleansing operations, 53—5, 55, 59, 61; condition of survivors, 33, 42-4, 47—8, 63—4, 144—5; death rates, 42, 50, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64, 144, 170—1, 205—6; emergency feeding, 34, 47—51, 59, 62—4; emergency hospitals, 35, 49, 53—5, 58—9,. 62—5 passim, 70, 71, 120; emergency powers, 36, 53, 54, 55-6, 67, 74, 122—3, 178; first anniversary, 205—6; nursing and medical parties, 34—5, 49, 50—1, 53—6 passim; prisoners’ reactions, 34, 51, 135—6, 145; repatriation, 64, 66—7; scene on arrival, 42—3, 58, 170—1; truce violated, 34, 43—4, 47—8, 53, 65, 78; typhus epidemic, 26, 33—4, 42, 43, 44, 47, 61, 65
Libre (newspaper), 186-8, 189, 190
‘Life in Concentration Camp’ series (Tannenbaum), 25, 46, 110, 113—14, 126, 152, 164, 166
lighting, 139, 140, 200-1
Lithuanians, 120, 169-70, 174
London, 7, 11—13, 16-17
Loske, Anita, 159-60
Lubbe, Wille, 142—5
Lubeck, 145-6
Lubin, 114
Lulbak, 121
Luneberg, 188
Luneberg trials, 122, 140-1; accused, 154—5; attended by UNRRA staff, 140, 152—62, 153, 186; evidence, 155—60; executions, 186, 203; pre-trial imprisonment, 36, 37-8, 115
MacDougall-Ind, Jean, 56
McLaughlin, Clarrie, 3
Maggioli, Pietro, 77
Maidanek, 114
mass graves, 35, 36, 55—6, 59, 78, 141—2, 142, 160, 205-6
maternity hospitals, 60, 65, 72-3, 80—1, 169, 184; see also Glyn Hughes Maternity Hospital; Glyn Hughes Mothers Convalescent Home
Mather, Lt Colonel, 34
Mecklenberg (ship), 18
media, 56, 80, 144, 154, 170—1, 186—8
medical experiments, 50, 156, 158
medical staff: liberation teams, 23, 26, 33, 34, 35, 44, 49, 53—6 passim; RAMC, 34, 49, 54, 55, 65; see also German doctors; UNRRA medical staff
medical students, 36, 50—1, 54—5, 59, 66
Meiklejohn, Dr A. P., 44, 49
memorial services, 56—7, 59, 78, 141—2, 165, 172, 197, 205—6
Mengele, Josef, 158
mental hospitals, 65, 145
Menuhin, Yehudi, 77-8
messes, 6, 23, 37-8, 80, 85, 86, 87, 92, 94, 95, 121, 194
Meyer, Keith, 162
mice, 74, 93
Michell, Helen, 3, 17
midwives, 60, 98—9, 165, 175, 184
Mili, 93, 140
military parades, 81
milk and milk products, 12, 49, 85, 147, 149
mines, 18—19, 22
Mischa, 92-3, 100
missing persons, 44, 95, 145, 165, 186—8, 189, 190; camp records destroyed, 34, 44, 65, 78
Moll, H. P., 158
Montgomery, General Bernard, 19, 22, 23, 169, 203
monuments, 205-6
mouth diseases, 49, 63
murders, 67, 87, 119, 175—6
music, 80; bands, 100, 132, 139—40, 168; concerts, 77—81 passim, 115—16, 182, 198; ordered by SS, 129, 132, 143, 160
national anthems, 78, 100, 116, 127, 198
national dishes, 63, 76—7, 80, 100, 147, 149, 179—80
national traditions, 78, 80, 97, 112, 121, 182, 194, 198—200, 201
Nationalist Socialist Nurses, 98
nationalities, 12, 65—6, 71, 80, 85, 100—1, 120; ethnic and racial conflict, 62, 85, 98, 181, 188, 189-90, 193, 195; multinational nursing team, 34-5, 63, 93, 94, 97, 98, 201
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), 19
Nazi health services, 98-9, 118, 168, 201
Nazi propaganda, 99, 118, 127—8, 129, 195
Nazism, kultur, 28, 56-7, 58, 99, 149, 202; symbols, 23, 38, 57, 59, 77
Neuengamme, 187
New Zealanders, 12
newspapers, 3, 12, 144, 186—8, 189, 190
nuns, 71, 78, 98, 105
nurses, 53—4; multinational team, 34-5, 63, 93, 94, 97, 98, 201; training program, 174—5; see also German nurses; Latvian nurses; UNRRA nursing team
observation towers, 36, 58, 142
occupational therapy, 116—17, 165—6, 167, 182
odours, 147, 149; Belsen odour, 42, 59, 88, 170
old people, 75, 128, 129, 130
Otte, Aniliese, 185
overcrowding: of concentration camps, 27, 35-6, 36, 42, 131, 132, 141, 144; of hospitals, 64, 71, 72, 74, 106, 137
overfeeding, 48
Palestine, 67, 181, 182
parenting skills, 80-1, 184
passive resistance, 91, 119
patient supervision, 51, 108—9, 117, 174—5
peptic ulcer diet, 50
pilfering, see theft
Pilsen, 127
Piri, 95, 140
Pitrucchi, 79—80
Poland, 67, 149, 201, 202—3, 212
Polanski, Romason, 159
Poles, 63, 101, 106, 117, 120, 143, 165, 174, 181, 184, 195; Chief Nurse for Poland, 202—3, 212; repatriation, 67, 119, 156, 181-2, 205
Polish ceremonies, 79-80, 172, 176—7, 205
Polish Committee, 165
Polish Jews, 67, 159, 161, 183, 198
Polish Ministry of Health, 203
Polish National Institute of Hygiene, 203
postal services, 66, 74, 11 5
potatoes, 37, 47, 62—3, 121, 143, 194
Prior, Major, 56
prison uniforms, 59, 117, 130, 132-3, 134, 140, 166, 167
propaganda, 101, 117; Nazi, 99, 118, 127-8, 129, 195
protein deficiency disorders, 44
protein hydrolysate, 49-50
psychology of DPs, 138—9, 175; effect of liberation, 34, 51, 117, 135-6, 145; fears and phobias, 50, 54, 62, 64, 80, 174, 177’ 181, 183; moral standards, 67, 94, 113, 131; morale, 48, 63, 64, 74, 75, 77, 78—9, 147; of children, 73, 183
public health nursing, 120, 175, 184
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) (QAIMNS(R)), 19, 23, 34, 35, 71—2
Raeder, 176
reading material, 77, 11 7
Red Army, 101, 120, 181
rehabilitation stages, 183—4
relief missions, 57, 66, 89
religious ceremonies, 105, 114, 165; see also Jewish ceremonies; Polish ceremonies
repatriation, 21, 27, 64, 66—7, 79, 120, 215; Jews, 67, 181, 182—3, 198, 200, 202, 298; Poles, 67, 119, 156, 181—2, 205; to Sweden, 99—100, 120
reprisals, 36, 75-6, 87, 143, 145, 175—6; raids on German farms, 67, 94, 188, 194
resistance movements, 67, 142—3, 158
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 176
Richards, Miss, 94
Rockefeller Foundation Health Commission, 44, 49
roll counts, 97, 131, 134—5, 143, 144
Roman Catholic Church, 71, 79-80, 98, 105, 114, 116, 121, 165, 172
Romanian Jews, 29, 65, 95, 140, 155-8, 184
Roosevelt, F. D. R., 213
Round House, 37, 53, 55, 62, 70, 71, 80, 88, 120, 183
Royal Air Force (RAF), 5, 22, 42, 62, 79, 115-16, 119, 183
Royal Alexandria Hospital for Children (Sydney), 107
Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 34, 49, 54, 55, 65
Royal Army Sanitary Corp (RASC), 90, 91, 92
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), 6, 12
Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS), 195, 211
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Sydney), 19, 35, 81, 208, 210, 212
Rund, Krysstow, 176—7, 196
Russians, 50, 141, 156; POW Tb patients, 81, 101, 109—10, 115, 120, 192—4
Sachsenhausen (Saxenhausen), 143, 186—7
Saint, 107
St George’s Hospital (London), 54
St John’s Ambulance, 34—5, 42, 57’ 58, 175, 208
St Vincent de Paul nuns, 71, 78
sanitary squads, 65—6
Schlamontz, 159
Schlomer, Irma, 95
schools, 76, 175, 182, 183, 198
Scots, 81, 93
security, 27, 74, 154; see also camp security; hospital security
Sedmalis, Erika, 97
Selmi, Guiseppe, 77
sewing machines, 109, 112
sewing materials, 64, 74—5, 112, 117, 146, 166, 182
Shiffman, Christa, 168
Simmonds, 34
sirens, 109, 188
slave workers, 22, 27, 28, 65, 67, 79, 99, 107, 156, 157, 166, 181, 182, 186—8; survivors’ accounts, 127—36, 142—5, 146
soap, 71, 91, 92, 115
Sohr, Miss, 93, 194
soup, 43, 47, 49, 62, 63, 128, 129, 132, 133, 143
South African Jews, 191
Soviet Union, 29, 67, 101, 120, 144, 149, 159, 174, 181, 215
Spanish Civil War, 142, 143
Special Kommandos, 156—8
spies, 166
sputum mugs, 64, 71, 137
Squares, 54, 62, 65, 71, 76, 81, 115, 144
Staff Head Quarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF), 13, 16
starvation, 142; diet for, 48—50; emergency feeding, 34, 47-51, 59, 62—4; hoarding by DPs, 64, 72; nursing of, 63—4; under Germans, 33, 43, 47, 62, 128-34 passim, 143
Stawell, Brigadier, 206
Steiner, Eva, 77
Stenhouse, Miss, 93
sterilisers, 38, 71, 137, 186
Stirling, C. L., 155
Strauer, Alexis, 185
Streicher, Julius, 176
Sucheka, Toni, 79-80
suicides, 36
surgery, 114, 141
Swan Lake (Bergen-Belsen), 37, 183, 202
Sweden, 100, 120
Swedish Red Cross, 99-100
swimming pools, 37, 129
Swiss International Red Cross, 183
Switzerlan d, 183
Sydenstricker, Colonel V. P., 49
Szloch, Miss, 93, 96, 201, 203
Tannenbaum, F., ‘Life in Concentration Camp’ series, 25, 46, 110, 113—14, 126, 152, 164, 166
tattoos, 72, 75, 119, 130
Tewsley, Dr Phyllis, 16—17, 183, 198, 199
theatre nurses, 60, 114, 138
theatres, 37, 115—16, 121, 182
theft, 75, 92, 109, 119; blankets and linen, 74—5, 111-13, 117—18, 191, 194; food, 47, 50, 91—2, 93, 137, 169-70, 202—3; from German farms, 67, 94, 188, 194; furniture, 93—4, 169—70; klipsi klipsi, 94, 113, 178
Theresienstadt, 127-8, 129
thermometers, 38, 115, 173
Tiefstock, 134—5
tracheitis, 178
transit camps, 17, 19, 21, 55, 59, 127, 129, 132
travel: Australia to London, 3-7; London to Bergen-Belsen, 11-14, 16—24, 26—9
truce period, 34, 43—4, 47—8, 53, 65, 78
tuberculosis, 60, 64—5, 71, 72, 80, 88, 89, 108—9, 113, 11 7, 121, 137, 142, 147, 176, 183, 186; Russian POW Tb patients, 81, 101, 109—10, 115, 120, 192—4
typhoid, 63, 115
typhus, 26, 33—4, 42, 43, 44, 47, 58, 61, 65, 71, 72, 95, 106, 115, 144, 145, 170
Udell, Miss, 60
Union Jack, 24, 56, 57, 74—5
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA): anniversary of liberation, 205—6; assumes control of entire camp, 174, 205; French training centre investigated, 116; history, 213-15; in British Zone, 33, 81, 90, 91, 120, 203, 206; in Poland, 201, 202; London HQ, 2, 7, 13—14; staff attend Luneberg trials, 151—62, 186; US contribution, 195, 215; welfare services, 3, 116, 165, 175; see also UNRRA medical staff; UNRRA nursing team
United States Medical Corps, 26
United States of America, 114, 191, 195, 215
United States Typhus Commission, 26
UNRRA medical staff, 16—17, 18, 19, 23, 26, 33, 49, 86, 90, 91, 120
UNRRA nursing team, 96, 121, 147, 192, 201—2, 203; accommodation, 71, 88—94; formal takeover of Glyn Hughes Hospital, 95, 97, 137; housekeeper problems, 86, 92, 94—5, 108, 122, 140, 148, 182; Luneberg trials, 152—62, 186; MKD appointed Chief Nurse and Principal Matron, v, 13—14; MKD appointed Chief Nurse for Poland, 202-3, 204, 212; MKD arrives in Bergen-Belsen, 26—9; MKD’s processing in London, 11, 13—18; relations with UNRRA administration, 4, 7, 13, 16, 33, 47, 62, 71, 88, 120, 176, 178, 214; report on nursing matrons, 137-8; role of Chief Nurse and Principal Matron, xiii, 68, 71, 74, 77, 90, 101; staff requirements, 60, 88, 120; staff shortages, 100—1, 111, 120, 176, 178; team arrives in Bergen-Belsen, 92—5 passim; transport problems, 87, 107
Vanderwell, Miss, 93, 114
Vatican Mission, 71, 78, 114, 116, 121, 165
vermin, 42—3, 74, 93, 129, 135; flies, 30, 55, 72, 85, 137; see also delousing
vitamins, 44, 48, 49, 121
Volkenrath, Elizabeth, 155, 186, 203
Vollman, Oberin, 118
voluntary organisations, 35, 66, 88, 100, 174, 181, 205
vomiting, 48, 49, 63
Von Oetzen, Oberin, 118
war crime trials, xiii, 170, 176; see also Luneberg trials
war damage: Europe, 6, 7, 11-13, 20—3; Germany, 21—4, 27, 119, 127, 133, 134—5, 145—6
War Office, 16—17
water supply, 34; hospital breakdowns, 107, 109, 122, 139; sabotaged, 43, 47—8, 53
weddings, 79—80
Wehl-Rosenfeld, Gertrud, 116
welfare services, 78—9, 88, 95, 121, 175
welfare workers, 3, 66, 116, 121, 165, 175, 191, 198
Willaert, Miss, 93, 96
Winwood, Major T. C. M., 162
Women’s Army Corps, 7
Woolworths (camp store), 76, 111
World War II, 6, 19, 22, 33, 34, 62, 67, 79, 100, 103, 116, 135, 143, 144, 147—50, 149, 159, 190, 193, 194, 200
x-rays, 101, 183
Yad Vashem Archives, ix, 208, 212
young people, 75, 76, 127—36, 146, 166, 167, 182, 206
Yugoslavia, 120
Yugoslavs, 76, 79