On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at Bergen-Belsen; deported with her family from Sighet, Hungary, in May of 1944, Rachel had by then already endured Auschwitz, the Christianstadt labor camp, and a forced march through the Sudetenland. The narrative follows both Hughes and Rachel as they navigate their respective forms of wartime hell until confronting the worst—Christianstadt’s prisoners, including Rachel, are deposited in Bergen-Belsen, and the British Second Army. Though they never met, it was Hughes’s commitment to helping as many prisoners as possible that saved Rachel’s life. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including Hughes’s papers, war diaries, oral histories, and interviews, this gripping volume combines scholarly research with narrative storytelling in describing the suffering of Nazi victims.