The event marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Charles, 71, was included in the small number of international leaders to deliver key addresses at the gathering. Aides at his office called his upcoming visit the “highest level British visit there has ever been to Israel or the Occupied Territories.
With that, he spoke of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a cellist from the Women’s Orchestra in Auschwitz who survived both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen before moving to Britain when the war ended. Lasker-Wallfisch co-founded the English Chamber Orchestra, where Charles said he is “proud to have been Patron for the past forty-three years.”The prince also spent time with Holocaust survivors at the event.
He is honored to “have the opportunity on behalf of the United Kingdom honor the memory of all those who were lost in the Holocaust and to reaffirm his determination that hatred, extremism and intolerance must never prevail,” Furssedonn-Wood added of the prince’s visit to Israel.of his paternal grandmother Princess Alice. He last did so in 2016 when he as in the country for the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres.
“My grandmother, who is buried on the Mount of Olives, has a tree planted in her name here at Yad Vashem, and is counted as one of the Righteous among the Nations – ḥasidei ummot ha`olam – a fact which gives me, and my family, immense pride,” he said. Charles: “My grandmother, who is buried on the Mount of Olives, has a tree planted in her name here at Yad Vashem, and is counted as one of the Righteous among the Nations – ḥasidei ummot ha`olam – a fact which gives me, and my family, immense pride.”
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