Sir Keir Starmer has paid tribute to the “sheer and remarkable courage” of Holocaust survivors ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day. The Prime Minister welcomed a group of survivors and their families to Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon, describing the meeting as “an incredible privilege”.
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’
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the site of Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz. After the visit Friday he voiced his “sheer horror” at what he saw and vowed that he would fight the growing antisemitism which is causing fears to rise among Jews even in Britain.
The prime minister was on his first visit to the concentration camp where 1.1 million people perished before its liberation 80 years ago.
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.
The Prime Minister visited the former Nazi concentration camp as he travelled to Poland to meet with the country’s political leaders.
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,
Keir Starmer said nothing could have prepared him for the 'sheer horror' of the Nazi death camp and the visit had strengthened his determination to stamp out the 'poison' of anti-Semitism
British PM says he saw 'sheer horror' at concentration camp which saw industrial-level killing as a 'collective endeavor by thousands of ordinary people'
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.
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 ...
A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau ...