LONDON (Reuters) – 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.
Starmer was accompanied by his wife Victoria, who is Jewish, at the concentration camp where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed by the Nazis during World War Two.
“Nothing could prepare me for the sheer horror of what I have seen in this place,” Starmer said in a statement released by his office. “It is utterly harrowing.”
“The truth that I have seen here today will stay with me for the rest of my life. So too, will my determination to defend that truth, to fight the poison of antisemitism and hatred in all its forms.”
Britain’s King Charles is due to attend a commemoration service at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial on Jan. 27.
Starmer will meet his Polish…
