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Dec 24, 2021

Anglesey family's resistance heroine


Emma Henderson weighed less than 32kg (5 stones) when released in 1945 from a concentration camp, where she was held captive for helping the French Resistance. It was only then that she learned her husband Mario had died in Nazi ...

custody. She lived until 2004 and is buried in her family's grave at Beaumaris Cemetery. For more about her and other people buried nearby, use your smartphone to scan the HistoryPoints QR codes on the gate at the lower entrance to the cemetery. Or click here