Ron Jones, aged ninety-seven, a widower, regularly travels to his local soccer club Newport County to follow each home match. He is their oldest supporter.
Yet this apparently happy man has a traumatic past; for several years during World War II he was a prisoner at Auschwitz, working in a factory close to the gas-chambers. Although treated somewhat more favorably than the Jews - the majority of whom went to the gas- chambers - the experience was still a harrowing one, especially in 1945, when he and his fellow-Brits were forced to march from the prison in Poland to Regensburg in Germany without food or water.
Presenter Joe Crowley takes Jones on a visit back to the ruins to re-live the experience. With the help of a local historian, he points out the former location of the factory and the gas-chambers. Using fading black-and-white photos as illustrations, Jones recalls how brutal some of the Nazi guards were; when one British officer refused to climb a chimney, he was gunned down in cold blood. Jones was told he would be next unless he carried out the order.
The only way Jones could endure the horrors of Auschwitz was by keeping memories of his wife Gladys in mind. They married shortly before war's outbreak - as childhood sweethearts, they had known one another for five years even before marriage. Gladys kept all of Jones's love-letters written from Auschwitz; as Jones read them out, we became aware of the depth of feeling shared by both of them.
When Jones returned home to Wales, he was roughly half of the weight he had been before going on active service. Crowley took him round the house he and Gladys used to share in 1945. Now occupied by other residents, the interior architecture had changed significantly; but Jones was still able to identify some of the rooms as they had been nearly seventy years ago.
FROM AUSCHWITZ WITH LOVE was a vivid testament to the unbreakability of the human spirit, especially when under extreme pressure. Although Auschwitz had scarred Jones for life, he was gradually able to assume something like a normal existence in the postwar years through Gladys's support.