Camilla Marks Holocaust Memorial Day

In This Story: Anne Frank

Annelies Marie Frank 12 June 1929 – c. February 1945 was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage.

One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

Anne Frank’s diary is one of the world’s best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.

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In This Story: Duchess of Cornwall

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, GCVO, CSM, PC is a member of the British royal family. She is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne. A second marriage for both of them, they married on 9 April 2005.

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In This Story: Holocaust

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population.

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In This Story: London

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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