Distance from the Belsen heap : allied forces and the liberation of a nazi concentration camp

Documents what the allied liberating soldiers saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. Analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. Brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp’s liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville.