King Charles to Visit Auschwitz to Mark 80th Anniversary of Liberation: 'Never Be Forgotten'

Mar. 15, 2025

King Charlesis set to lead the British commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust.

He is to head to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland on Jan. 27 as the 80thanniversary of its liberation is marked.

Charles, 76, who is still undergoing treatment for an undisclosed cancer, will travel to Poland along with leaders from around the world. He’s expected to meet with the President of the Republic of Poland, Mr Andrzej Duda. It will be Charles’ fifth visit to Poland — most recently he traveled there in 2008 with Camilla when she was Duchess of Cornwall.

TheHolocaust Memorial Day Trustpromotes and supports Holocaust Memorial Day, which has taken place in the U.K. since 2001.

The news of his visit came ahead of Charles hosting a Holocaust Education event at Buckingham Palace on Monday, Jan. 13. He is set to meet Manfred Goldberg, aged 94, who survived concentration camps, including Stutthof.

King Charles and Queen Camilla at Holocaust Memorial Event in Jan. 2023.VICTORIA JONES/POOL/AFP via Getty

Charles also enjoyed a close friendship with survivorLily Ebert, who he awarded an honor for her services to Holocaust education at Windsor Castle in 2023. When she died in Oct. 2024, Charles penned a heartfelt tribute to her, saying, “It was with the greatest sadness that I heard this morning the news of Lily Ebert’s death.”

“As a survivor of the unmentionable horrors of the Holocaust, I am so proud that she later found a home in Britain where she continued to tell the world of the horrendous atrocities she had witnessed, as a permanent reminder for our generation — and, indeed, for future generations — of the depths of depravity and evil to which humankind can fall, when reason, compassion and truth are abandoned.”

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“Alongside other Holocaust survivors,” the monarch continued, “she became an integral part of the fabric of our nation; her extraordinary resilience and courage an example to us all, which will never be forgotten.”

source: people.com