75 years ago my grandfather arrived at Belsen Concentration camp

Tobias Stone
Lessons from History
2 min readApr 15, 2020

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75 years ago my grandfather entered Belsen Concentration camp. The son of Jewish refugees who had fled to England before he was born, he arrived at Belsen as Captain Joe Stone, a doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was following the British 2nd Army across Europe, and was one of the first British doctors to arrive as the camp was liberated. He joined a small group of army…

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