N WILSON commented on not even one minute's silence given to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day (Letters, February 1).

I have even heard comments such as: "It was nothing to do with us, they were all foreigners!"

Totally wrong, English agents died inside those camps.

Also amid the appalling sadistic cruelty meted out, we should not forget the wonderfully compassionate acts of help given to the persecuted.

I have just read the book The Righteous, The Unsung Heroes Of The Holocaust, by Martin Gilbert. It describes how ten British prisoners of war in Stalag 20B, near Malenburg, helped one young starving Jewess survive.

She was hiding in a barn in a feeding trough, having escaped from a death march from Stutthof concentration camp.

I lived as a young teenager through the 1939-45 war, here, in England. When Anne Frank was 15, so was I.

No one should ever forget the Holocaust. Read Martin Gilbert's book.

Mrs E Speed,

Forest Grove,

Stockton Lane, York.

Updated: 10:37 Tuesday, February 08, 2005