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Anne Frank / Queen Elizabeth / Holocaust
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1400568,00.html)
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1400568,00.html)
Grief and banality as past meets present
Stephen Bates
Friday January 28, 2005
The Guardian
The renowned Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank used to collect pictures of the young Princess Elizabeth with her friend Hannah. Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth led 1,000 Holocaust survivors in an hour-long service in London in memory of the millions, including Anne, who died in the Nazi death camps.
Silence fell as a sea of yarmulkas and trilby hats took their places below the medieval roof of Westminster Hall, to honour the memory of those killed by the Nazis.
Hard to imagine that many hundreds of those in the hall had survived the death camps in which 6 million died. Auschwitz, Belsen: the black and white newsreel film and photographs projected on to the walls of the hall and large screens within it were not history to them, but vivid still.
Even the Queen, grave in black and escorted to her chair by Gena Turgel, of Stanmore, an 82-year-old survivor of the gas chambers, was a part of their memories.
Anne Frank, the congregation was reminded by one of her friends, Hannah Pick, had collected pictures of the young English princess in her family's flat in Amsterdam. The Queen is a couple of years older than Anne Frank would have been, had she lived.....
Stephen Bates
Friday January 28, 2005
The Guardian
The renowned Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank used to collect pictures of the young Princess Elizabeth with her friend Hannah. Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth led 1,000 Holocaust survivors in an hour-long service in London in memory of the millions, including Anne, who died in the Nazi death camps.
Silence fell as a sea of yarmulkas and trilby hats took their places below the medieval roof of Westminster Hall, to honour the memory of those killed by the Nazis.
Hard to imagine that many hundreds of those in the hall had survived the death camps in which 6 million died. Auschwitz, Belsen: the black and white newsreel film and photographs projected on to the walls of the hall and large screens within it were not history to them, but vivid still.
Even the Queen, grave in black and escorted to her chair by Gena Turgel, of Stanmore, an 82-year-old survivor of the gas chambers, was a part of their memories.
Anne Frank, the congregation was reminded by one of her friends, Hannah Pick, had collected pictures of the young English princess in her family's flat in Amsterdam. The Queen is a couple of years older than Anne Frank would have been, had she lived.....