• King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla lighted candles to commemorate Holocaust day.
• The royal couple met Dr. Martin Stern, who was taken to Nazi detention camps as a child.
• He called the lighting of candles ‘immensely important’.

As a mark of respect for those who endured “such horrors” during the Holocaust, King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla made a gesture today.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, King Charles and Camilla lighted candles at Buckingham Palace to commemorate this day and other genocide victims.

It occurs on the day commemorating the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp.

“I hope this will be one way of trying to remember all those poor people who had to suffer such horrors for so many years – and still do,” the King stated.

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The royal couple met Dr. Martin Stern this morning. Dr. Stern was a little boy when he was taken to Nazi detention camps during the Second World War.

At the age of five, he made it out of the Dutch ghetto of Theresienstadt and the Westerbork transit camp.

His mother passed away from an infection after childbirth in 1942, and his Jewish father passed away in a different camp in 1945.

He told reporters, “We talked about the importance of education about the Holocaust and about other genocides.”

“The King was very insistent on inquiring about other genocides as well, and so was the Queen Consort.

“So, the importance of education the importance of starting that education at an early age.”

He called the lighting of candles ‘immensely important’.

“The perpetrators would like that we would just forget about it, move on to other things so they get on quietly with doing more of their horrific crimes,” Dr. Stern added.

“Lighting a candle publicly is a marker that makes it hard for tyrants and state criminals to perpetuate their mass crimes quietly.”

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