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First published in 2000

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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Doherty, Muriel Knox.

Letters from Belsen 1945: an Australian nurse’s experiences with the survivors of war.

Includes index.

ISBN 978 1 86508 222 6

eISBN 978 1 76063 692 0

1. Doherty, Muriel Knox—Correspondence. 2. Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp). 3. World War, 1939–1945—Concentration camps—Liberation—Germany—Personal narratives, Australian. 4. Nurses—Australia—Correspondence. I. Cornell, J. A. Judith A.). II. Russell, R. Lynette. III. Title.

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Cover photographs: National Archives (US), courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives (photo also reproduced on title page and chapter opening pages); photolibrary.com; Doherty Collection, New South Wales College of Nursing Archives, Sydney, DC/PB13