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Letter 3: Iolo Lewis

Dear Friends,

My name is Iolo Lewis

I’m a Welshman. Today I live in Welwyn Garden City but during the Second World War I was in the army. I was with the 11th armoured division which liberated Bergen- Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp, in April 1945. At that time I had been wounded and I was trying to rejoin my regiment. I had to travel to catch up with them. On the way I was involved in a road accident and I had to stay a night in a tented area. I asked where we were. Someone said “Near Belsen.”

I was absolutely horrified to find out what had happened where I stood and the inhumanity of man against man. I have never been the same since, mentally. How could people do this sort of thing to other people? My division took terrible casualties from Normandy to the Baltic but that was a sacrifice for releasing people from these horror camps.

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