William and Kate, the UK’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, visit the site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Stutthof in Poland where they meet with two survivors of the facility where 28,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Manfred Goldber, and Zigi Shipper, both 87 and from north London, show the royal couple the camp that was operated in Nazi-occupied Poland.
William and Kate see displays of discarded shoes, clothing and other personal items that belonged to prisoners who were sent to the camp. They are also shown a gas chamber where prisoners too sick to work were murdered.
The royal couple places stones at the camp’s Jewish memorial, an old Jewish custom dating back to medieval times. Shipper and Goldber recite the El Maleh Rachamim (Merciful God) memorial prayer.
The royals are on a five-day visit to Germany and Poland.
— Stuart Winer
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