Prince William Unveils Statue To Honor Holocaust Hero
Prince William got to pay honor to one of the United Kingdom’s true war heroes as he unveiled a statue dedicated to Major Frank Foley on Tuesday, reported BBC.
With the statue draped in the Union Jack, the flag of the U.K., William was able to speak to the gathered crowd at Mary Stevens Park in Stourbridge, which included members of Foley’s family and those he rescued from the Holocaust, secreting them away to Britain.
A spy with the British intelligence agency, MI6, during the second world war, Foley worked undercover in Nazi Germany posing as a passport control officer. It was there that Foley gave out visas to Jewish Germans and refugees from across Europe, going against the Nazi’s racial laws. Foley’s work saved the lives of more than 10,000 people fleeing the country as the Holocaust raged.
MI6 described Foley as “a true British hero” and that he “did not carry out his work for personal gain.”
