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generation to keep the memory alive of that great crime as the Holocaust generation passes on. And I commit myself to doing this.”
The kippah worn by the Duke was a gift from the Chief Rabbi.
It was inscribed with a passage from Isaiah: “Let us go up to the House of the God of Jacob. For the Torah shall come forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
Prince William wrote in the Yad Vashem guest book: “It has been a profoundly moving experience to visit Yad Vashem today.
“It is almost impossible to comprehend this appalling event in history. We must never forget the Holocaust.”
In Jerusalem, William also discussed the Shoah in later meetings.
He was introduced, during a visit to the Prime Minister’s residence, to people who owed their lives to his greatgrandmother, Princess Alice.
She hid three members of the Cohen family in her palace in Athens during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
At Yad Vashem he had met two survivors who escaped Nazism thanks to Britain, and who now live in Israel.
“He was very much at ease and we were very much at ease talking to him, and he already knew all about the Kindertransport,” said Paul Alexander, who left Nazi Germany for the UK as a child refugee in 1938.
He added: “I never, in my wildest dreams, thought I would have such an opportunity.
“I’ve always tried to think of a way I could express my feelings about my absorption to England, the opportunity given to me, and the second life given to me being saved from the Holocaust by the generosity and charity of the English people.”
I never thought I would have such an opportunity’