Holocaust survivor who tended to Anne Frank dies aged 95
From IQBAL
Gena Turgel, 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 du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội her story of 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 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 vtr.org.vn 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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