Emotional return to Yorkshire for Holocaust survivor

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A Holocaust survivor has made an emotional trip back to the Yorkshire house that gave him a second chance at life. Yossi Gerstein, now 88, was brought to Ilkley and the Loxleigh Hostel at the age of 12 after being rescued from post-war Europe by the British in 1946. This week, he has returned to the building, which is again a private house, for the first time since the late 1940s. Mr Gerstein has been living in Israel since ever since but was allowed to have a look around Loxleigh again by its current owner, Phillipa Waterland. Ms Waterland told BBC Radio Leeds: "Clearly his delight in being here, it's just so evident. "It's brought so much home to him and he's clearly in the happiest place and hopefully a place where he started many happy memories."