View source for Holocaust survivor who tended to Anne Frank dies aged 95

Gena Turgel, a [http://www.Theepochtimes.com/n3/search/?q=Holocaust%20survivor Holocaust survivor] who comforted diarist Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months before its liberation, has died at the age of 95.<br><br>Britain�s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said Ms Turgel died on Thursday.<br><br>The Holocaust Educational Trust said Ms Turgel dedicated her life to sharing her story of surviving the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland and the German Nazi camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen.<br><br>The Queen and Gena Turgel<br><br>It was in a [http://www.dict.cc/?s=hospital hospital] at Bergen-Belsen that Ms Turgel cared for Anne Frank as the teenager was dying of typhus.<br><br>She once told the BBC: �I washed her face,  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] gave her water to drink, and I can still see that face, her hair and how she looked.�<br><br>After the Second World War,  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] Ms Turgel married one of the camp�s British liberators, Norman Turgel, earning her the nickname �The Bride of Belsen�.<br><br>Advertisement