Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (born 1919)

Denis Avey

British Army soldier during World War II (1919–2015)

Denis Avey was a British veteran of the Second World War who was held as a prisoner of war at E715, a subcamp of Auschwitz. While there he saved the life of a Jewish prisoner, Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. For that he was made a British Hero of the Holocaust in…