Gena Turgel, Holocaust survivor known as Bride of Belsen, dies
Tributes paid to 95-year-old ‘shining light’ who tended to a dying Anne Frank and survived Nazi death camps
by Harriet Sherwood
Jun 08, 2018
2 minutes
A Holocaust survivor who became known as the Bride of Belsen after she married a British soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camps has died aged 95.
Gena Turgel, who survived the Kraków ghetto, a death march, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, spent much of her life teaching British schoolchildren about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Karen Pollock,
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