Prince William is set to have a private meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer today amid a busy day for the Prince of Wales, who is also leading the nation in commemorations for Holocaust Memorial
Commemorations at the concentration camp began earlier when Poland’s president Andrzej Duda joined Auschwitz survivors.
The Starmers' joint visit comes after Lady Victoria, who is Jewish, headed to the site without her husband on Thursday. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp complex, including nearly 1.1 million Jewish people. Of them, 960,000 died in the camp.
The Prime Minister visited the former Nazi concentration camp as he travelled to Poland to meet with the country’s political leaders.
The prime minister was on his first visit to the concentration camp where 1.1 million people perished before its liberation 80 years ago.
Lady Starmer’s emotional return to Auschwitz as she visits concentration camp with prime minister - Sir Keir says it was his wife’s second visit to Auschwitz but it was ‘no less harrowing’
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the site of the Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz ahead of talks with Poland's leaders on security and tightening Britain's ties with the European Union.
Watch live as Holocaust survivors return to Auschwitz in Poland on Monday, 27 January, marking 80 years since the concentration camp was liberated. Holocaust Memorial Day is held yearly on 27 January to commemorate the memory of the six million Jews and other groups who the Nazis murdered in the Holocaust.
Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where prisoners were executed. Across Europe, officials were pausing to remember.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has renewed his commitment to ensure all schools teach pupils about the Holocaust, warning that society must "make 'never again' finally mean what it says". The Labour leader said while we remember the six million Jewish victims "we must also act",
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