King Charles: Auschwitz liberation anniversary trip is ‘so important’

Britain’s King Charles III has described his decision to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau as “so important”.

Goldberg, 94, who survived concentration camps, including Stutthof, and a death march when just a boy, said the first thing the king mentioned was the trip, saying it was “now official” after it was announced earlier by Buckingham Palace.

“I feel I must go for the 80th anniversary, [it’s] so important,” the king later told the elderly survivor who visits schools to give first-hand accounts of the Holocaust, and was described by the king as “very special”.

Ahead of the event next Monday, Charles will meet members of the local community in Kraków and Polish President Andrzej Duda, Buckingham Palace has said.