Holocaust Memorial Day – latest: King Charles to visit Auschwitz on 80th anniversary of Nazi camp liberation
Holocaust Memorial Day – latest: King Charles to visit Auschwitz on 80th anniversary of Nazi camp liberation
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Charles will travel to Poland to commemorate milestone with foreign monarchs, presidents, prime ministers and Holocaust survivors, becoming first British head of state to visit former death camp. The King is visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation on Holocaust memorial day, becoming the first British head of state to visit the former Nazi concentration camp.
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Charles will travel to Poland to commemorate the milestone with foreign monarchs, presidents, prime ministers and Holocaust survivors invited to a service at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum and memorial. During a recent Buckingham Palace reception ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day – held annually on 27 January, the day Auschwitz was liberated by soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front in 1945 – the King said: “I feel I must go for the 80th anniversary, [it’s] so important.”.
More than a million people, mostly Jews but also Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and other nationalities, were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Second World War as part of the Holocaust in which six million Jewish men, women and children were killed.
The ceremony will be held in front of the infamous gates of the former Nazi concentration camp, which had the words Arbeit Macht Frei – “work sets you free” – above it. Auschwitz survivors will address the invited guests who are expected to include France’s President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and Spain’s King Philip VI and Queen Letizia.
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