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Ellie Crabbe

King and Queen meet Holocaust survivors on memorial day

The King spoke with Holocaust survivor Helen Aronson during a reception at Buckingham Palace in London to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (Aaron Chown/PA) - (PA Wire)

The King and Queen met Holocaust survivors and lit candles of remembrance to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.

Charles viewed portraits of seven Holocaust survivors including one of Helen Aronson, 98, who was one of only around 750 people to be liberated from the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, out of 250,000 people sent there.

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