| Abstrakt: |
On 30 April 1945, Saul Stein, leading aircraftman in 126 Wing of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), wrote home to his siblings: 'I want you to know [,] that your brother Saul was the first Canadian Jewish boy to enter a concentration camp filled with Jews' (127). Saul Stein's letter is one of thirty-five testimonies of Canadian participants in the liberation and subsequent relief of Bergen-Belsen which form the major part of Mark Celinscak's latest book. The diversity of this Canadian engagement with Belsen demonstrates what Celinscak characterizes as the multifaceted nature of the liberation. [Extracted from the article] |
