Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Kate and William Visit First Concentration Camp In Poland

 The royal couple were given a guided tour of the museum, where they viewed belongings such as shoes left behind by former prisoners who were killed by the Nazis 

 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today walked through the infamous 'death gates' of a Nazi concentration camp. Kate and William visited the former Stutthof camp in northern Poland where 65,000 people died during Germany's occupation in the Second World War. Surrounded by a wire fence and watchtowers, the royal couple passed stark wooden barrack blocks where inmates were housed. They were shown discarded shoes and clothing seized from prisoners on arrival at the camp and saw the gas chamber used to murder those who were too sick to work.


                       The Duchess looked visibly moved by the experience of viewing the personal belongings of former prisoners, which are now on display in the museum 
  The royal couple were shown a series of exhibits discarded shoes and clothing seized from prisoners on arrival at the camp in Gdansk, where 65,000 were killed during Germany's occupation in the Second World War
 Stutthof was the first Nazi concentration camp set up in Poland in 1939, and was one of the last to be liberated in 1945
 The couple also met two British survivors of Stuttoff, Zigi Shipper and Manfred Goldberg

-Dailymail

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