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Famous landmarks across the country lit up in purple tonight to remember the millions of people who died during the Holocaust.
The London Eye, the Natural History Museum, the Palace of Westminster and the Millennium Bridge in Newcastle were among the buildings immersed in light on Holocaust Memorial Day.
It came as the Prince of Wales spoke of the deeply worrying growth of fake news and urged people to challenge those who peddle unfounded conspiracy theories.
Charles, who is patron of the HMD Trust, spoke of the need to be the light in the darkness as people across the country placed candles in their windows to remember the Jewish people, .
Gena Turgel hailed Bride of Belsen when she married Brit soldier Norman Turgel
He helped free her from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1945
Gena comforted Anne Frank before she died a month before camp was liberated
Daughter says Gena, who died in 2018 aged 95, would have been ecstatic after she dedicated her life to sharing the horrific experiences she endured in WWII
A London museum wants to challenge common perceptions of the Holocaust
New galleries due to open in London’s Imperial War Museum later this year will challenge commonly held views about the Holocaust, with a focus on the “ordinary” people who carried out the atrocity.
The Second World War and Holocaust Galleries will explore themes of persecution, escalation, the development of violence toward Jewish people, and the rise in tensions that followed World War I.
“The Holocaust looms large in contemporary culture but the version of it that looms large isn’t necessarily the historic occurrence that was the Holocaust, it’s a kind-of constructed, cultural re-imagining of it,” historian James Bulgin, in charge of the new Holocaust Galleries’ content, told CNN.
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