King Charles to attend Auschwitz commemoration

Ahead of the commemorations in Poland, the King is hosting an event at Buckingham Palace on Monday for education organisations dedicated to teaching about the Holocaust.

He will meet Mr Goldberg, born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1930, who had faced slave labour in Riga in Latvia and had been in the Stutthof concentration camp, near to what is now Gdansk in Poland.

After liberation and the end of World War Two, Mr Goldberg came to Britain, and in recent years has shared his first-hand story, as a way of teaching future generations about what had happened.

The King has had a long-standing commitment to building bridges between different faith groups – and has spoken out against religious intolerance and extremism.

He has supported efforts to remember the Holocaust – including in 2022 commissioning portraits of seven Holocaust survivors, including Mr Goldberg, in a tribute to the passing generation.

When they were unveiled, the then Prince Charles said: “These portraits represent something far greater than seven remarkable individuals. They stand as a living memorial to the six million innocent men, women and children whose stories will never be told, whose portraits will never be painted.”