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6:00 AM February 7, 2021
A ceremony on Holocaust Memorial Day saw residents at Thorp House in Griston, near Watton, unite with a school in the Netherlands
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A poignant ceremony remembering victims of the Holocaust brought together a Norfolk care home and a school in the Netherlands.
Residents at Thorp House in Griston, near Watton, worked with pupils at Caston and Thompson primary schools to make stumbling stones , laid in Holland every year to commemorate Jewish families killed by the Nazis.
Stumbling stones were laid during a poignant Holocaust memorial ceremony at Thorp House in Griston, near Watton
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image captionJohn Lister and his wife Ella pictured at the Norfolk care home had been married for 70 years before she died
A 101-year-old veteran who received thousands of Christmas cards and gifts from around the world after speaking about the loss of his wife, has died.
John Lister and his wife Ella were married for 70 years before she died from coronavirus in March.
His care home in Norfolk said the cards helped him get through his first Christmas without her.
Mr Lister, a former artillery man of the D-Day landings, died in hospital last week.
Appearing on BBC Breakfast, the care home asked people to send his Christmas cards to make him smile again.
Published:
4:32 PM January 8, 2021
Updated:
4:36 PM January 8, 2021
John Lister, who was inundated with Christmas cards since revealing his experience of loneliness during lockdown, has died aged 101
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Tributes have been paid to a war veteran who moved a nation when he shared his story of loneliness.
John Lister, who has died aged 101, was a resident at Thorp House nursing home in Griston, near Watton.
The Normandy veteran first made headlines when he told how he was struggling to face his first Christmas without his wife Ella, who died of Covid aged 92 during the first wave of the pandemic – just weeks after their 70th wedding anniversary.
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