Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent
PA Media
King Charles will attend a commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz
King Charles will travel to Auschwitz later this month to attend an event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
The commemoration in Poland on 27 January will be the King’s first overseas trip this year.
On Monday afternoon, the King hosted an event at Buckingham Palace for education projects teaching about the Holocaust, which was inflicted on Jewish people by the Nazis.
He met Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, aged 94, who has recorded his experiences of concentration camps for interactive lessons for schools.
Mr Goldberg praised the King’s efforts to “ensure that the Holocaust is never forgotten – as an antidote against it ever possibly happening again”.
However, he spoke of his concerns about how young people could be adversely influenced by social media and that it seemed
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