“Once I heard that, there was no way I wasn’t going to help,” he said.
“These guys were basic British soldiers who came across a girl who was practically dead. They could have left her. They risked torture and death by hiding her.”
The 62-year-old investigator, a member of the Shaare Hayim synagogue in Manchester, added: “The son of Willy Fisher burst out crying when I found him. He said: ‘I always knew my father should have been honoured for what he did’.
“To go to Yad Vashem and see the plaques paying tribute to the men was very emotional,” he said.
All 10 soldiers have now been formally recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and as British Heroes of the Holocaust by the UK government.
