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| Author | Michael John Hargrave |
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| Genre | Diary |
| Publisher | Imperial College Press |
Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 92 |
| ISBN | 978-1-78326-320-2 |
Bergen-Belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal is Michael Hargrave's diary of his experiences providing medical assistance to the former inmates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp between 28 April and 28 May 1945. It was written for his mother after he volunteered for the work while he was a student at Westminster Hospital Medical School in London. It is a typescript of the diary, which was originally hand-written, and begins with a foreword by the head of research at the Imperial War Museum and brief background notes by Hargrave's son David. Centre pages include photographs of the London medical students and the state of the camp, including the "human laundry".
The book was launched by Amnesty International UK in 2013 with a speech by Mala Tribich, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen who described her experiences in the camp. Also present were historian Ben Shephard and philosopher Jonathan Wolff. It was published in 2014 by Imperial College Press, with the sale profits going to Amnesty International and the Rotary Foundation's PolioPlus campaign.