Photograph: Alan Moore

British combat camerman, Sergeant (Sgt) Colman Michael (Mike) Lewis, Army Film Unit, uses a De Vry camera to film a group of women at Belsen. It is not known whether they comprise former inmates, SS (Schutzstaffel) guards or local German civilians forced to enter the camp to confront the full extent of atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. Belsen was one of many concentration camps administered by the Third Reich as an instrument of their 'Final Solution'. Thousands died at Belsen through maltreatment, disease or deprivation. That toll would join with others to become the full cost of the genocide against Jews and other subjugated people. Photographer, VX93880 Lieutenant (Lt) Alan Moore, Australian official war artist, was attached to the British Army during the Allied advance across Europe. Whilst at Belsen, Lt Moore made several paintings, sketches and drawings as a record of Nazi atrocities committed against the predominantly Jewish inmates. A personal camera was used to record events observed in the Allied occupation of the camp and these black and white images also provide witness to one Australian's experience of the Holocaust. Sgt Lewis originally served with the Royal Fusiliers, then the Queen's Royal Regiment, and later trained as a parachutist. He joined the Airborne Section of the Army Film Unit, filming in Arnhem and at the liberation of Belsen. A copy negative of this image is held in the collection under the accession number P03007.011.