The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.

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.

Sir Keir Starmer has called his visit to Auschwitz "utterly harrowing" and said he was determined to fight the "poison of antisemitism". The prime minister visited the former Nazi concentration camp where he laid a wreath ahead of the 80th anniversary of ...

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.

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’

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday Jan. 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP ...

Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria left a wreath and a poignant written message as they visited Auschwitz, a place the prime minister described as “utterly harrowing”, on Friday (17 January). The PM described how he felt "sickness" and an "air of desolation" as he stood by the train tracks at the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland,

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland on Friday ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the site which is seen as a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust.

The King will make history as he becomes the first British monarch to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp on Monday.

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.

The Prime Minister has warned a similar atrocity could happen again unless society upholds its duty to ‘make never again finally mean what