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9 April 2025 THE PRIME MINISTE
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Dear Stanley and Mervyn,
try and for your nary service to our coun onally for your extraordi r forget. neve and I want to thank you pers learn ht mig witnessed so that we courage to share what you n of British part of a special generatio andy Landings, you were blow against fascism. As veterans of the Norm sacrifice dealt a decisive and ism hero and your ing you thtak owe servicemen whose brea y - and, for that alone, we freedoms we cherish toda You helped to secure the y. repa can never fully fellow comrades a debt we eyewitnesses You went on to become the liberation of Europe. with British forces. by ation liber But your story did not end its after Belsen in the early days to the horrors of Bergen been haunted for ever. For years you have d there has stayed with you g, sick and starving I know that what you foun owing sight of the staggerin harr the by and ase, dise men yourselves, by the scale of death and it must have felt as Jewish Jews only begin to imagine how ted towards your fellow direc d survivors you met. I can hatre ning chur and stomachto discover such depravity Jewish. simply because they were your determination d even talk about it. But est of before you felt you coul s year e the full facts of this dark that re I know it took som ensu to ing help t you saw is to speak the truth of wha forgotten. way any in or ed deni nished, crimes can never be dimi month, I want ation of Bergen Belsen this th reds of versary of the British liber anni 80 voices to those of hund your So as we mark the ng addi and ies g your testimon rd for etern ity. to thank you for recordin have put the truth on reco who ators liber p cam s and nal Holocaust British Holocaust survivor Learning Centre of our natio forever preserved by the its lessons for humanity and t caus These testimonies will be Holo the of Parliament, the truth Memorial. Sitting next to the generations. will echo eternally across what it says - and that never again means ything possible to ensure Together we must do ever – never again. what it must truly mean
Mr Stanley Fisher Mr Mervyn Kersh
Brothers in arms: Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersh pictured together last year
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