Phil Bayles' Holocaust blog  Phil Bayles. Photo: ITN  I am often
asked the question: "who is the most interesting person you have
met?" I have to say that people are often disappointed with my
answer. It is not going to be Jordan. Or David Beckham. Or one
of several Prime Ministers I have interviewed. Their stories are
all a bit predictable and fairly well known anyway.  The most
interesting interviewees tell you a story that is so unexpected
and compelling that it demands your attention. Take a 12-year-
old boy who defied incalculable odds to survive insatiable
killers who exterminate done and a half million children. The
reason he survived was simply that he was more use to the Nazis
as slave labour than any other children around him.  Ben
Helfgott lived in the Polish town of Piotrkow. In 1942 German
soldiers shelled the town, murdered Jewish worshippers in the
synagogue and forced others to dig their own graves in the woods
before shooting them.Most of the rest of the town's Jewish
population - around 22,00