London, Jan 27 : The UK Royal Family on Thursday announced that painted portraits of the seven Holocaust survivors would be on public display at the Queen’s Gallery in London on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). “On Holocaust Memorial Day portraits of seven Holocaust survivors, commissioned by The Prince of Wales, will go on public display at The Queen’s Gallery. These remarkable portraits will act as a lasting memorial to those who lost their lives and whose stories will never be told,” the Royal Family tweeted.
“This week, The Prince of Wales HMD Trust Patron and The Duchess of Cornwall met and heard the stories of Helen, Lily, Manfred, Arek, Anita, Rachel, Zigi, and the artists who painted them – whose work will serve as a reminder of the horrors which one day will be lost to living memory,” they said. “This special display has been commissioned by The Prince of Wales Clarence House to pay tribute to the stories of seven remarkable Holocaust survivors, each of whom has in recent years been honoured for services to Holocaust awareness and education,” Royal Collection Trust said in its tweet. According to Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s website, HMD takes place on January 27 each year to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
“The Holocaust (The Shoah in Hebrew) was an attempt by the Nazis and their collaborators to murder all the Jews in Europe. From the time they assumed power in Germany in 1933, the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny human and civil rights to German Jews. They used centuries of antisemitism as their foundation,” the trust said. Six million Jewish men, women and children were killed by the Nazis between 1941 and 1945. Their attempt to murder all the Jews in Europe, shook the foundations of civilisation.
