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Machine generated contents note:pt. OneHistorical Background --Introduction: Canada, the Holocaust, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen --Reading Testimony --pt. TwoTestimony --1.Canadians Arrive at Bergen-Belsen --Ronald Ford Anderson --Mervin Mirsky --Alan Rose --Maurice Victor --Leo Heaps --2.Documenting the Horror Camp --Ron Laidlaw --Fred Hopkinson --Al Calder --Alex Colville --Donald K. Anderson --Aba Bayefsky --Henry S. Abramson --3.Relief Measures --John Proskie --Matthew Nesbitt --Saul Stein --Lyle M. Creelman --John W. Thompson --Elsie May Deeks --John F. McCreary --James Ernest Thompson --4.Eyewitness Testimony --Larry D. Mann --Leo Velleman --Ironside --Kmg W/iyfe --Carl Reinke --Franfc Snowsell --Gordon Panchuk --5.Displaced Persons Camp --Stanley H. Winfield --Ted Ap/in --Bernard Yale --Edgar Jamieson --6.Religious Observation --Ross Ketchen Cameron --Shalome Michael Gelber --Samuel Cass --Abraham Brenner.

The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience.

In February 1998 the Senate Subcommittee of Veteran Affairs held hearings to discuss a proposed Holocaust gallery in the Canadian War Museum. The hearings ultimately led to a democratization of the museum's content and presentation. The controversy also helped lead to the creation of both the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg as well as the establishment of a National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. Finally, by examining the Holocaust gallery controversy from the perspective of the present day, we can better appreciate a growing body of research that explores how the Canadian government, media, military and average citizen responded to the Holocaust. ; En février 1998, le sous-comité du Sénat des anciens combattants a organisé des audiences afin de débattre de la proposition de créer une galerie sur l'Holocauste au sein du Musée canadien de la guerre. Ces audiences ont permis une démocratisation de l'élaboration du contenu et de la présentation du Musée. La controverse suscitée a aussi permis la création du Musée canadien des Droits de la personne à Winnipeg et du Monument national de l'Holocauste à Ottawa. Analyser cette controverse dans une perspective actuelle amène à mieux appréhender l'historiographie gran -dissante portant sur les réponses du gouvernement, des médias, de l'armée et du citoyen lambda canadiens à l'Holocauste.