- Contributed by听
- salisburysouthwilts
- People in story:听
- Rosie Garetly
- Location of story:听
- Ireland, Belsen
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A5822183
- Contributed on:听
- 20 September 2005
I was 14 and in Ireland at the time in a Convent. Ireland was a free state so they didn鈥檛 have anything to do with the War as such, but seven miles further on the Coast one night the Germans dropped some bombs by mistake. We heard them - the sisters and nuns praying in the dormitories.
The only thing I know really about the war is my brother was with the first British tanks to go the Belsen and he would never talk about it. Eventually he did say it was like a skeletons holding a skeletons up and their eyes were in the back of their heads and that was all he would ever tell us. The British soldiers were shocked and didn鈥檛 expect to see anything like it.
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