A NORTH-East regiment’s part in liberating a Nazi concentration camp will be discussed next weekend (Saturday, February 15).
Retired colonels John Heron and Ted Kemp will explore the Durham Light Infantry’s (DLI) role in the liberation of the infamous Bergen Belsen camp.
In April 1945, the DLI’s 114 Regiment was ordered 280 miles behind enemy lines.
The soldiers thought they would be dealing with a possible typhus outbreak.
Instead, they helped to free 53,000 prisoners, many half-starved and seriously ill.
The lecture will take place at the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, Aykley Heads, Durham City, on Saturday, February 15, at 2pm.
It is the first of the museum’s Military Talks programme and coincides with an exhibition by artist Neil Molloy commemorating the victims of the Holocaust.
Entitled Displacement Theory, the collection runs alongside a retrospective of the late painter Maurice Cockrill until Sunday, March 30.
Tickets for the talk are £3 each and can be booked at the museum or by calling 03000-266-590. Normal museum admission charges also apply.
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