The Jewish British Army soldier who helped Nazi concentration camp survivors
185Mervyn Kersh, a 100-year-old Jewish British Army veteran, fought in the Second World War in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Having been part of the D-Day landings in 1944 - the Légion d'Honneur is the medal of which he's most proud - he then found himself in Germany in April 1945.
Eighty years ago British forces liberated the Nazi-run Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
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