Monday, May 12, 2025

Doll from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

 A sinister post, detailing a rag doll of a male concentration camp prisoner. The clothing is made from real prisoner's clothing.

The doll was given to the donor's (to the IWM Collection) 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.
They 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.

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