King Charles to attend Auschwitz commemoration


King Charles is set to travel to Auschwitz to attend an event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp. Buckingham Palace has confirmed that this will be the King’s first overseas trip this year. The commemoration will take place in Poland on 27 January.

Earlier in the week, Charles hosted at Buckingham Palace an event that celebrated education projects teaching about the Holocaust that the King has supported, which was inflicted on Jewish people by the Nazis. A Holocaust survivor, Manfred Goldberg, aged 94, who has recorded his experiences of concentration camps for interactive lessons for schools, was in attendance.

Mr Goldberg praised the King’s role in ensuring that the Holocaust is never forgotten as an antidote against it ever happening again. However, he expressed his concerns about how young people could be influenced by social media and said that it seemed like ‘wishful thinking’ to believe that antisemitism had been consigned to the past.

The events that King Charles will attend in Poland will mark the anniversary of the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army in January 1945. About 7,000 prisoners were in the camp when it was liberated, and there had been 1.1 million people, mostly Jewish, killed there. The focus of commemorations will be on those remaining elderly Auschwitz survivors, but it is expected that international leaders and heads of state will attend on what is also Holocaust Memorial Day

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