Queen pledges to ‘never forget’ the atrocities of the Holocaust
Share:
The Queen has pledged to “never forget” the atrocities of the Holocaust and called for a “more tolerant future”, at an event ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Camilla spoke as she attended the annual lunch of the Anne Frank Trust, an educational charity founded by family and friends of the diarist’s father, Otto Frank, on Thursday in central London.
Wearing a blue embroidered dress and boots, the Queen smiled as she greeted attendees including Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke BEM, 80, and Mala Tribich MBE, 94. Addressing more than 600 guests, Camilla reflected on the importance of a message from another survivor, Marian Turski, who had warned against complacency in the face of discriminations against all minorities.
She said: “Today, more than ever, with levels of antisemitism at their highest level for a generation, and disturbing rises in Islamophobia and other forms of racism and prejudice, we must heed this warning. “The deadly seeds of the Holocaust were sown at first in small acts of exclusion, of aggression and of discrimination towards those who had previously been neighbours and friends.
“Over a terrifying short period of time, those seeds took root through the complacency of which we can all be guilty: of turning away from injustice, of ignoring that which we know to be wrong, of thinking that someone else will do what’s needed – and of remaining silent.
