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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday at a solemn service at the infamous death camp in Poland.
Leading the U.K. delegation for the ceremony alongside Lord Eric Pickles, the U.K. Post-Holocaust Envoy, the duchess joined survivors and 40 officials from across Europe for the service, which was held underneath a tent above the former camp’s gate house.
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The duchess and her husband, Charles, Prince of Wales, previously attended the National Holocaust Memorial Day service in 2015 to commemorate 70th anniversary of the liberation, where they met with Holocaust survivors.
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Charles, who became Patron of The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust in 2017, delivered a moving and powerful foreword at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial, for the World Holocaust Forum last Thursday.
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The prince stated the Holocaust is everyone’s story, “a story of incomprehensible inhumanity, from which all humanity can and must learn.”
source: people.com
