Holocaust survivor shares why Remembrance Sunday is important
, the a teenage Mr Bright was liberated in May 1945 when Soviet troops pressed west through Poland and the Germans retreated.
With his English wife, Cynthia, with whom he had two daughters, who are now both in their 60s, he settled in Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich, 35 years ago, where he still lives. "If they don't know, then their children won't know, and their children's children won't know, and that does mean we do forget and we should not, we should remember," he says.
Nevertheless, he says he will be remembering not only his experience during World War Two, but all the lives lost and "sacrifices people made and had to make".
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