Mayer Hersh, Jewish Holocaust survivor, who was one of the longest-serving inmates of Auschwitz, has died aged 90.
Mr Hersh from Sieradz, in Western Poland, was 13 when German troops arrived in his hometown and scattered his family. He would never see any of them again.
He was imprisoned in nine concentration camps by the Nazis, including Otoczna, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Gotha, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt. In was from this last camp, in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, that he was liberated by Allied troops in 1945.
Even then, weighing a pitiful four stone, he might not have survived. But he was flown in an RAF bomber directly to Carlisle, where with careful treatment and no small amount of determination he recovered his health.
