Steven Frank, a Holocaust survivor who is featured in a new portrait taken by the Duchess of Cambridge, shares the powerful meaning behind his memento
Steven Frank brought a pan and a tomato from his garden. The tomato signified the plants he helped another prisoner grow and harvest for food in the last camp the family was kept in, Theresienstadt. “The pan basically kept us alive mainly because of my mother’s incredible versatility at extracting food from here there and everywhere,” he says.
The resourceful woman — who died in 2001 at age 90 — got a job in the camp’s hospital laundry. In return for doing washing for other prisoners she was given scraps of bread that she used to make porridge for her children. “Eventually she would get all of these crumbs in a pan, add some hot water and make a paste. She would come into the children’s barracks where I was with my brothers and feed us in turn with one spoon, a mouthful at a time. I never saw her eat a spoonful herself.
In the first camp, Westerbork, where they were taken in March 1943, Frank recalls British fighter jets strafing the camp with bullets because they mistook it for a military camp.
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