Keen amateur photographer Kate Middleton has leant her budding skills to an important project to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
On Sunday, January 26 – one day before the memorial day which marks 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp – new photos taken by the Duchess of Cambridge were released on Instagram.
Both photos are of Holocaust survivors, who moved to the UK in the 1940s, and their family.
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The first is of Steven Frank with his granddaughters Maggie and Trixie. Per the Kensington Royal Instagram account, Steven was sent to the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands and then Theresienstadt as a child. He and his brothers were three of 93 children who survived the camp where 15,000 children were sent.
The Duchess also took pictures of Yvonne Bernstein and her granddaughter Chloe.
In another post on Instagram, Kate can be seen talking to and laughing with Yvonne behind the scenes of the project and chatting to Steven and his granddaughters.
'Despite unbelievable trauma at the start of their lives, Yvonne Bernstein and Steven Frank are two of the most life-affirming people that I have had the privilege to meet,' the Duchess of Cambridge said in a statement.
'They look back on their experiences with sadness but also with gratitude that they were some of the lucky few to make it through. Their stories will stay with me forever.'
The photos, which were part of a joint project by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Jewish News and the Royal Photographic Society, will be exhibited alongside 75 images of survivors and their families later this year to mark 75 years since the end of the Holocaust.
Kate is known to be an artist behind the lens and regularly takes photos of her children George, Charlotte and Louis to mark their birthdays. Most recently, she captured her husband, Prince William at a glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range during their official royal visit to Pakistan.
Last year, due to her love of the hobby, the mother-of-three was handed a new patronage of the Queen for the Royal Photographic Society.
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Olivia Blair is Entertainment Editor (Luxury) at Hearst UK, working across ELLE, Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. Olivia covers all things entertainment and has interviewed the likes of Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Michaela Coel and Ryan Gosling over the years.
