“To add insult to injury, there was a rumour going round that despite risking our lives we were now being criticised by the British, and that attempts were being made to turn Sosabowski and the Polish Brigade into the scapegoats for failure of the operation to achieve all its goals.”
“The wretched of the earth are no longer remote, shadowy figures occasionally glimpsed in some TV documentary or in the bottom half of a new bulletin. They are here, in Europe, battering at our gates.”
That the offspring of Holocaust survivors and the Kindertransport should be drummed out of the Labour Party for ‘anti-semitism’ is unconscionable.
“I died to save my children. People of the world, see that they shall not die.” Gravestone of Cpl Arthur James Jones, killed on the first day of Operation Market Garden, Arnhem, aged 24.