Holocaust survivor and local resident Harry Kessler is set to be awarded a B.E.M. after being named in the 2022 New Year’s Honours list.
Mr Kessler, who lives near Hesketh Park with his wife Mary, will be awarded his medal for services to Holocaust education and awareness.
The 91-year-old grandfather of six escaped the Nazis originally from his native Austria and later then-Czechoslovakia.
In September Harry raised over £7,000 for Guide Dogs for the blind by cycling 900 miles along the Southport coast.
His daughter Liz, a best-selling children’s author, used her father as the basis for the character Leo in her novel When The World Was Ours.
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