Woman who took care of Anne Frank died

london - The Polish-born Gena Turgel, who survived several concentration camps, died at the age of 95. Turgel was in the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where she provided Anne Frank.

The Holocaust Educational Trust, which teaches youth about the Holocaust, announced the death, but did not say where the Kraków-born Turgel was killed. The organization writes that Turgel told hundreds of thousands of schools in Great Britain about what she had experienced in the war.

Gena Turgel was 16 when the Germans invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. During the war she was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Then she was transferred to the concentration camp Buchenwald and then she ended up in Bergen-Belsen.

There she took care of Anne Frank among other things. 'I washed her face and gave her water to drink,' Turgel said to the BBC. She later married the British soldier Norman Turgel who was involved in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. They then settled in Great Britain. Norman Turgel died years ago.

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