Azriel Feuerstein was born on St George’s Day on 17 April 1928 at three o’clock in the morning in Košice, Slovakia (or ‘Kassa’ in Hungarian). Deported with his family to Auschwitz Nazi death camp when he was only 16 years old. Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp by the British Army in April 1945. In 1967 Azriel was an anti-aircraft gunner in the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War. Now a father and grandfather, Azriel lives in Israel.