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

The Prime Minister visited the former Nazi concentration camp as he travelled to Poland to meet with the country’s political leaders.

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.

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 ...

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’

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,

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Victoria Starmer made an emotional return visit to Auschwitz alongside her husband ... In a statement after the visit, Sir Keir vowed to “fight the poison of antisemitism” and pointed to ...

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.