King Charles to attend Auschwitz commemoration

King Charles volition question to Auschwitz aboriginal this period to be an lawsuit marking the 80th day of the liberation of the Nazi attraction camp.

The commemoration successful Poland volition instrumentality spot connected 27 January, with the King among the planetary visitors expected for memorial events.

On Monday day astatine Buckingham Palace, the King volition conscionable radical progressive successful acquisition projects designed to stock the memories of the Holocaust, inflicted connected Jewish radical by the Nazis.

That volition see gathering Holocaust subsister Manfred Goldberg, aged 94, who experienced attraction camps and a decease march.

The events successful Poland volition people the anniversary of the liberation of the camp by the Soviet service successful January 1945.

According to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, the commemoration volition statesman successful a structure erected implicit the gross to the camp.

Many of the victims who were brought to the Nazi decease campy had arrived by bid - and a symbolic freight car volition basal successful beforehand of the gate.

The Auschwitz memorial says that astir 7,000 prisoners were successful the campy astatine the clip of its liberation - and that 1.1 cardinal people, mostly Jewish, had been killed there.

The absorption of commemorations volition beryllium connected those remaining aged Auschwitz survivors - but it is expected that galore planetary leaders and heads of authorities volition be connected what is besides Holocaust Memorial Day.

King Charles volition conscionable Polish President Andrzej Duda during his visit.

Ahead of the commemorations successful Poland, the King is hosting an lawsuit astatine Buckingham Palace connected Monday for acquisition organisations dedicated to teaching astir the Holocaust.

He volition conscionable Mr Goldberg, calved into a Jewish household successful Germany successful 1930, who had faced enslaved labour successful Riga successful Latvia and had been successful the Stutthof attraction camp, adjacent to what is present Gdansk successful Poland.

After liberation and the extremity of World War Two, Mr Goldberg came to Britain, and successful caller years has shared his first-hand story, arsenic a mode of teaching aboriginal generations astir what had happened.

The King has had a long-standing committedness to gathering bridges betwixt antithetic religion groups - and has spoken retired against spiritual intolerance and extremism.

He has supported efforts to retrieve the Holocaust - including successful 2022 commissioning portraits of 7 Holocaust survivors, including Mr Goldberg, successful a tribute to the passing generation.

When they were unveiled, the past Prince Charles said: "These portraits correspond thing acold greater than 7 singular individuals. They basal arsenic a surviving memorial to the six cardinal guiltless men, women and children whose stories volition ne'er beryllium told, whose portraits volition ne'er beryllium painted."