Eric with fellow veteran Leonard Buckley at Pegasus Bridge.
Eric placing a cross in the sand on Omaha Beach
Eric and Inge Goldrein with British veterans at Sainte-Mère-Église
...In June 2009 D-Day Revisited went back to Normandy with Eric, as well as his wife Inge and son Timothy.
Eric was able to return to many of the places he remembers from his time in service, and after so many years have passed he described it as "a very sentimental journey"...
Veterans and their loved ones at the iconic Montgomery Statue, 5th June 2009.
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Eric’s wife, Inge, came to England with the Kindertransport group. She was one of the 10,000 children who escaped Nazi Germany in 1939. Herself from Austria, Inge discovered in the post war world that she’d lost almost all her family in the Holocaust – parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles. It seemed a natural question to ask Eric about his views on the Jewish aspect of the War...
"I think it’s just too horrible to contemplate. To some extent the Allies had an awareness of what was going on in Germany and further East, but there was a reluctance to publicise it in case it became caught up in the propaganda exchange. That was probably correct. In my period of service all that I did notice was that I was usually made Orderly Officer at Christmas time!"
