LONDON  — Queen Elizabeth II is leaving Tuesday on a state visit to Germany that will include her first trip to a former Nazi concentration camp.

She and her husband Prince Philip plan to visit the Bergen-Belsen camp where diarist Anne Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the British liberated it on April 15, 1945.

She will visit a memorial dedicated to the sisters and to meet with aging survivors and liberators of the notorious Nazi camp.

“It is fitting the queen should go,” said Bernard Levy, 89, who helped liberate the camp as a young soldier and has been asked by the queen to attend the wreath-laying ceremony.

“Holocaust education is so paramount, and many kids of today don’t really know about it. The queen going there lends credence.”

He said many who saw the horrors at the camp, or suffered as prisoners, tried to put the experience behind them but are now finding that they want to talk about it. He places himself in that category.

“After 70 years there’s been a revival of people who want to say something before they die,” said Levy, speaking on behalf of the Holocaust Educational Trust.

Elizabeth, 89, and Philip, 94, are planning a strenuous schedule after their arrival Tuesday evening.

Elizabeth will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday after a boat trip along the River Spree. They will also meet with President Joachim Gauck.