King Charles III is set to visit the Auschwitz death camp in Poland next month to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.
The king, who first visited Auschwitz in 2020 when he was still Prince of Wales, will be joined by representatives from 20 different countries for the anniversary event on 27 January, which has also sent invites to all Auschwitz survivors in addition to state delegations.
Despite the king’s continuing struggle with cancer, for which he receives weekly treatment, organisers say he will be the first British monarch to visit the infamous concentration camp. The last foreign trip taken by his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, was to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 2015.
King Charles has long expressed his commitment to the Jewish community in the UK as well as Poland, where his connection to World Jewish Relief, of which he remains a patron, led to the opening of a Jewish community centre in Krakow.
