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Female doll made after liberation in Bergen-Belsen camp (EPH 10142)
1945
Imperial War Museums
London, United Kingdom
At Bergen-Belsen camp, as survivors regained their strength, some attended occupational therapy sessions organised by Jewish relief organisations. This doll was made by a survivor and given to Gwyn Edmond Jones, one of the British soldiers who had liberated the camp
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- Title: Female doll made after liberation in Bergen-Belsen camp (EPH 10142)
- Date: 1945
- Physical description: Rag doll of female concentration camp prisoner. Clothing is made from real prisoner's clothing.
- Historical description: Given to donor's step-grandfather, Gwyn Jones (British soldier) by former prisoners after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Details of similar items made by liberated Belsen prisoners, and on occupational therapy at the camp in general, can be found in Letters from Belsen 1945: An Australian Nurse's Experiences with the Survivors of War by Muriel Knox Doherty, Judith Cornell, and R.Lynette Russell.
- External link: View on Imperial War Museums' website
- Associated place: Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany
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