page_title: Gena Turgel
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Gena Turgel / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Description: w:Gena Turgel appearing on After Dark in 1987. More here.
context_page_description: Gena Turgel was a Jewish Polish author, educator, and Holocaust survivor.
context_section_description: She married a British soldier, Norman Turgel, after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and the British press called her "the Bride of Belsen." The ceremony was officiated by Jewish British Army chaplain Padre Capt. Leslie Henry Hardman Her wedding dress, made from a British army parachute, is an exhibit in the Imperial War Museum in London. Norman held a party to celebrate his engagement to Gena at Belsen having been granted permission to do so by Major Leonard Berney, the commander of the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp (as it was then called).
  Her memoir, I Light a Candle, was published in 1987. She spent much of her life educating British school pupils about the Holocaust.
caption: Appearing on After Dark in 1987, more here.
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