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A new Holocaust learning centre in Yorkshire is playing a vital role as the far right in modern Britain gains strength. PETER LAZENBY reports
Holocaust survivor Arek Hersh shows the identification number printed on his arm by the nazis

IT WAS 50 years before Auschwitz survivor Arek Hersh could talk about his horrific experiences.

For decades he had trouble sleeping at his home in Leeds, where he eventually arrived after he was liberated from Theresianstadt, a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.

It was only when in the 1990s he began talking and writing about his experiences that he began to find peace. The story is the same for many other Holocaust survivors.

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