David Cesarani - Belsen in History and Memory

BELSEN IN HISTORY AND MEMORY To the Memory of Hugo Gryn (19301986)

This volume grew out of a conference on The Liberation of Belsen held in London on 910 April 1995. The conference was organised jointly by Dr David Cesarani, Director of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London and Dr Tony Kushner, Marcus Sieff Lecturer in the Department of History and Parkes Library, University of Southampton. The administrative arrangements were ably handled by Anne Beale and Gerta Regensburger of the Wiener Library. The conference was sponsored by the Lord Ashdown Settlement; The R.M. Burton Charitable Settlement; Mr Ernst Fraenkel; Friends of the Parkes Library; Mr Jack Goldhill; The Sue Hammerson Foundation; The Hartley Institute and the School of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Southampton; Sir Sigmund Sterberg Charitable Foundation. The editors of this volume wish to tank these sponsors for making possible the event and the publication based on it. They also wish to thank Frank Cass who maintained his patient support for the project and Sybil Lunn who worked on the index. Rabbi Hugo Gryn, who died in 1996, closed the conference. This volume is intended as a small memorial and tribute to his courage and wisdom, and the inspiration he provided to all those concerned to increase knowledge and awareness of the Holocaust.