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Holocaust survivor who tended to Anne Frank dies aged 95

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Gena Turgel, tour bắc kinh từ hà nội a Holocaust survivor who comforted diarist Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months before its liberation, has died at the age of 95.

Britain�s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said Ms Turgel died on Thursday.

The Holocaust Educational Trust said Ms Turgel dedicated her life to sharing her story of [http://De.Pons.com/�bersetzung?q=surviving&l=deen&in=&lf=en surviving] the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland and the German Nazi camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen.

The Queen and Gena Turgel

It was in a hospital at Bergen-Belsen that Ms Turgel cared for Anne Frank as the teenager was vtr.org.vn dying of typhus.

She once told the BBC: �I washed her face, gave her water to drink, and I can still see that face, her hair and how she looked.�

After the Second World War, Ms Turgel married one of the camp�s British liberators, Norman Turgel, earning her the nickname �The Bride of Belsen�.

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