Princess of Wales has an emotional reunion with survivor of the Holocaust while sharing a sweet moment at Buckingham Palace Garden Party

The Princess of Wales shared a warm embrace with a survivor of the Holocaust and his granddaughters while they reunited on one Buckingham Palace Garden party on Tuesday.

Kate, 43, photographed Steven Frank, 89, who has experienced several concentration camps as a child, with his granddaughters, Maggie and Trixie Fleet, five years ago for a project that marks the 75th birthday of the end of the Second World War.

Three mother, who organized the garden party of yesterday next to her husband Prince WilliamShare an emotional hug with Mr Frank before the couple caught up.

When they met, Kate said warmly: ‘I feel like we are old friends now. Great to see you again. ‘

The Royal last met Mr. Frank during a Holocaust Memorial Day event in January, to mark the 80th birthday of the liberation of former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Their meeting brought their previous connection because the Princess Mr. Frank had photographed for her generations in 2020: portraits of the Holocaust Survivors exhibition.

For the exhibition, Kate photographed Mr. Frank and Yvonne Bernstein, who both settled in Great -Britain after the Second World War.

Frank was one of only a handful of children to make it alive of the last of the many concentration camps that he was sent. By that time his father was dead to pronounce against the Nazis.

Mrs. Bernstein was hidden as a child France During most of the Second World War and her uncle, it was seized and killed for protecting her.

Both Mr. Frank and Mrs. Bernstein were photographed next to their granddaughters in Kensington Palace.

The photos were shown in the Imperial War Museum in an exhibition that brought together more than 50 contemporary portraits of survivors of Holocaust and their families.

The Prince and Princess of Wales Instagram account shared the news and wrote: ‘Shown for the first time, these powerful photos catch the special connections between survivors of Holocaust and the younger generations of their families and remind us of our collective responsibility to ensure that their stories live.

‘The photos present a group of survivors who made the UK to their house after the start characterized by unimaginable loss and trauma.

‘While offering a space to remember and share their stories, these portraits are a celebration of the entire life they have lived and the special legacy that their children and grandchildren will bring into the future.

“The exhibition is in collaboration with the @royalphotophotophicicsociety and @HolocaustemoryDayTrust, two organizations that invited the Duchess to be part of this special project, which marks 75 years last year since the end of the Holocaust.”

On one of the photos, Mr. Frank saw a pan holding a pan, this was one of his mother’s items he had saved during his time in Westerbork Transit Camp. He was later sent to Theresienstadt with his brothers and mother.

While in the camp he would do his mother for prisoners in exchange for a small amount of bread.

She would put crumbs in the pan and add hot water to make a pasta. She would give every child a spoon to keep them alive and deny herself from eating.

It was this act of kindness of his mother and her use of the pan that eventually saved his life.

He survived several concentration camps and Mr. Frank and his brothers were three of only 93 children who survived the camp, of the 15,000 children sent there.

Kate, who is patron of the Royal Photographic Society and had yielded a thesis on photography during her degree for art history, said at the time “despite the incredible trauma at the start of their lives” they were “two of the most life -making people I had to meet the privilege.”

She added: ‘They look back on their experiences with sadness, but also of gratitude that they were some of the lucky few to endure it. Their stories will stay with me forever. ‘

She added that although she had been lucky to meet the survivors, she acknowledged that not everyone could hear such stories in the future.

In January the ceremony brought together in Guildhall, which was shown on BBC1, the faith and the survivors of the Holocaust and more recent genocides.

Kate, who was completely black with a five-string pearl necklace, and William, dressed in a navy suit and blue tie, described it as a ‘great honor’ to participate when they met a group of survivors who told her about their heartbreaking personal stories.

In one Emotional reunion with Mr FrankKate told him: “I want to give you a big hug.”

He thanked her for sending a Christmas card and the couple talked about his family.

She also embraced warmly surviving Yvonne Bernstein, 87 – who had also taken her photo by the princess in 2020 – before Kate held her hands and sat down next to her and said: “(It is) such a treat for me (to see an old friend (to see) an old friend.”

Kate has always had a passion for photography and she did not produce her – thesis on the era of photography – in particular photos of children.

In 2005 she graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, with a student (2: 1 Hons) in art history.