Alex Colville
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David Alexander Colville was a Canadian painter and printmaker.
Alex Colville in 1945
Colville House, Mount Allison University
Alex Colville Star on Canada's Walk of Fame
Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp,
Alex Colville
…there until the following February. He continued on to tours in the Netherlands and Germany, where he was also tasked with depicting the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Colville's painting Bodies in a Grave (1946), a scene of emaciated corpses in a Bergen-Belsen burial pit, is based on images he captured with his…
View of the camp after liberation
Memorial to Soviet prisoners of war
Bergen Belsen crematorium in April 1945
A British Army bulldozer pushes dead bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, April 19, 1945