<p>Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.</p><p>It’s 10 years since the world’s deadliest outbreak of Ebola started in West Africa. We hear from a survivor and discuss the legacy of the epidemic with the BBC's global health reporter Tulip Mazumdar. </p><p>Plus, the first World War Two battalion to be led by an African-American woman. Major Charity Adams’ son tells her story. </p><p>We hear about the group of men arrested in Egypt in 2001 at a gay nightclub who became known as the Cairo 52.</p><p>We also hear about the avalanche on Mount Everest which killed 16 sherpas carrying supplies 10 years ago. </p><p>Finally, the train service between India and Bangladesh that lay dormant for 43 years which rumbled back into life in 2008.</p><p>Contributors: </p><p>Yusuf Kabba – an Ebola survivor from Sierra Leone
Tulip Mazumdar - the BBC's Global Heath reporter.
Stanley Earley – son of Major Charity Adams
Omer (a pseudonym) - arrested and imprisoned at a gay club in Cairo
Lakpa Rita Sherpa - helped recover bodies after the avalanche on Mount Everest in 2014
Dr Azad Chowdhury – on the inaugural Friendship Express</p><p>(Photo: Liberian Health Minister Burnice Dahn washes her hands at a holding centre for Ebola patients in 2014. Credit: Getty Images)</p>