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By Lauren Beavis & Rom Preston-Ellis A man who survived Nazi occupation and camps as a teenager has reflected on his harrowing start in life as he turns 100. George Durkal, who was held captive in an internment camp in Germany during World War Two marked his milestone with a celebration at his care home. George was born as one of six siblings in Poland in 1925 but emigrated to the UK after the war. Speaking from the Argentum Lodge Care Home in Nailsea, in Somerset, he said the outbreak of the Second World War and Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 had shattered his happy childhood. Aged 15 h…

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