SHINING A LIGHT TO MARK HOLOCAUST DAY
The Queen meets concentration-camp survivors at moving event to mark 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and Anne Frank’s death
Her Majesty meets Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke – who was born in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria in April 1945 – at the London Hilton on Park Lane
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Lighting a candle as she remembered victims of the Holocaust, the Queen paid an emotional tribute to Anne Frank ahead of the 80th anniversary of her death.
Her Majesty looked sombre as she addressed 600 guests at the event in London in the run-up to Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. The date marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed in gas chambers or perished from starvation, cold and disease.