Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Joseph Podemski
Preface
Acknowledgments
Bergen-Belsen: A Timeline

Part One: Historical Background

Introduction: Canada, the Holocaust, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Reading Testimony
Part Two: Testimony

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
Allan Ironside
King Whyte
Carl Reinke
Frank Snowsell
Gordon Panchuk

5. Displaced Persons Camp
Stanley H. Winfield
Ted Aplin
Bernard Yale
Edgar Jamieson

6. Religious Observation
Ross Ketchen Cameron
Shalome Michael Gelber
Samuel Cass
Abraham Brenner

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Mark Celinscak is the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Executive Director of the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Reviews

“Celinscak compiles stark and moving personal accounts by Canadians engaged in the liberation of one of the most notorious sites in Hitler’s camp system... This book fills a gap in the history of the atrocities and its effect on those who saw it first-hand.”
*Canadian Jewish Literary Awards*

“In Kingdom of Night, Celinscak powerfully illustrates through their own words the experiences of these Canadian military and relief personnel. The result is a collection of witness testimonies which will both appeal to a general reader and influence future research into Belsen’s liberation and relief... [it is] an essential book.”
*Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History*

“One of the many strengths of Celinscak’s work is his ability to chart change over time in the camp…. This volume is clearly the product of deep and sustained research, and the result gives scholars and students access to another range of English language sources dealing with the war’s end.”
*The Canadian Historical Review*

"This book offers a lively description of the efforts, failures and support of the many Canadians involved [at Belsen], while also bearing witness to a great humanitarian tragedy. Both the experiences of the survivors and the actions of Canadian soldiers are described here in a humane and thoughtful way. This book sheds light on an important period of Canadian history that is largely forgotten, while adding valuable perspective to Holocaust studies."
*Vine Awards Jury*