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Turgel, the “Bride of Belsen,” recently died at age
95. The miracle is that she didn’t die
years ago at the hands of her Nazi
tormentors.
While
surviving “stints at four concentration camps,”
Turgel managed to assist the dying Anne
Frank. Gena washed Anne’s face and brought her water
to drink, as Anne succumbed to typhus.
Just weeks
later, the British liberated Bergen-Belsen, and
Gena was freed. Within six weeks, she married
one of her liberators, Norman Turgel. Gena's wedding dress was "made from the parachute of a British paratrooper."
What a
story! But more importantly, what a
legacy! It must
never be nullified by Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis.
Resources
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/holocaust-survivor-gena-turgel-who-aided-a-dying-anne-frank-dies-at-95/ar-AAysddP?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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