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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 16: British Jews in World War II: Normandy, Arnhem and Bergen Belsen: Stanley Fisher's story
Description: This episode is dedicated to the 60,000 British Jews who fought for their country during 1939 to 1945.One of them, Stanley Fisher (100-years-old in August 2024), is my first cousin Samuel Posaner's great-grandfather - and we met by chance at Samuel’s Bar Mitzvah in Birmingham in the very 75th anniversary week he landed on Normandy’s beaches in 1944.Stanley is living history.Not only a teenage soldier arriving in Arromanches in the week of D-Day, he also fought at Arnhem, a terrible and bloody defeat for the allies - and then witnessed the shocking aftermath of t...