British paratrooper came across Nazi death camp on VE Day

'How Churchill's VE Day speech reached our Nazi camp from a hidden attic radio'

Steven Frank and Gerald Granston faced the horrors of the Holocaust (Picture: Stella Pictures/BBC/Getty) As a hidden radio came to life in the attic of a German concentration camp, a voice almost too impossible to believe began to speak. It was Winston Churchill announcing the end of war in Europe – the famous words which Beatrix Frank became the first person in the notorious Theresienstadt camp to hear. The English woman quickly spread the news…

'My gran was the first artist into Bergen-Belsen - she painted the bodies so we will never forget' - The Mirror

Charlotte Johnstone's grandmother Doris Zinkeisen was the first artist into Bergen-Belsen - 'She painted the emaciated bodies so future generations would never forget what had happened'

British paratrooper came across Nazi death camp on VE Day

Peter Belcher, aged 101, spoke of ‘relief’ that the war was over.

Memories of liberating the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen

Towards the end of the Second World War, Monmouthshire man Vincent Leslie was one of the Allied troops who helped liberate the hell on Earth that was Bergen-Belsen. In 2010, his son kindly shared with Abergavenny Chronicle reporter Tim Butters, his father’s story. In honour of VE Day 80, we have chosen to reprint the article.