British sovereign Charles III will attend the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday.
This is the king’s first visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.
During this stay in Poland, the king will also meet Polish President Andrzej Duda.
“The king will attend commemorations at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Poland, marking 80 years since the liberation of the former concentration camp,” according to a palace statement.
Before the commemorations, Charles III will meet residents of the city of Krakow.
Her mother, Queen Elizabeth II, visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in June 2015.
Delegations from several countries are expected at the ceremonies for the anniversary of the liberation by the Red Army of the death camp.
Built in occupied Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau is the symbol of the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany against six million European Jews, a million of whom died in this camp between 1940 and 1945, with more than 100,000 non- Jews.
Some 80,000 non-Jewish Poles, 25,000 Roma and 20,000 Soviet soldiers were also killed there by German Nazis.
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