Kingdom of night : witnesses to the Holocaust In April 1945 when the Bergen Belsen concentration camp was surrendered and handed over to the British Army Canadian forces arrived on scene to provide support to bear witness and to document the crimes. They were overwhelmed understaffed and left without adequate supplies equipment and medicine. Their encounters at the camp were haunting transformative experiences that forever changed their lives. In Kingdom of Night Mark Celinscak reveals the engagement of Canadian troops and other personnel at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The book brings together a series of gripping often deeply moving accounts that demonstrate the critical relief work carried out by Canadians who have been largely overlooked for more than seventy five years. It outlines in both stark and moving detail what a cross section of Canadians both said and did during the liberation efforts at one of the most notorious sites in Hitlers camp system. In addition biographical overviews are presented for each Canadian featured in the book not only highlighting some of their life saving and humanitarian work but also revealing what ultimately became of their lives after the war. Kingdom of Night depicts the gruelling efforts by those who assisted the victims of one of the greatest crimes in history. Machine generated contents note:pt. OneHistorical Background Introduction: Canada the Holocaust and the Liberation of Bergen Belsen Reading Testimony pt. TwoTestimony 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 Ironside Kmg W iyfe Carl Reinke Franfc Snowsell Gordon Panchuk 5.Displaced Persons Camp Stanley H. Winfield Ted Ap in Bernard Yale Edgar Jamieson 6.Religious Observation Ross Ketchen Cameron Shalome Michael Gelber Samuel Cass Abraham Brenner.