The Prime Minister spoke of his ‘harrowing’ visit to Block 27 at Auschwitz with his wife Victoria earlier this month.

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

Victoria Starmer has made an emotional return visit to Auschwitz, alongside her husband the prime minister, during their visit to Poland. Lady Starmer, whose Jewish father fled Poland in the 1920s to escape the rise of Nazism in neighbouring Germany, was seen walking to the grounds of the former concentration camp hand-in-hand with Sir Keir.

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.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the site of the Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz ahead of talks with Poland's leaders on security and tightening Britain's ties with the European Union.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday visited the site of Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz, voicing his “sheer horror” at what he saw and vowing that he would fight the growing antisemitism which is causing fears to rise among Jews including in Britain.

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,

The Prime Minister visited the former Nazi concentration camp as he travelled to Poland to meet with the country’s political leaders.

PM’s wife, whose Jewish father’s family fled Poland before Second World War, makes visit against backdrop of rising anti-Semitism

Keir Starmer has spoken of "deep bonds of family, of history, and of friendship" on a state visit to Poland - where he unveiled a new security and defence pact.

The Prime Minister has said the Holocaust was a "collective endeavour" by ordinary people "consumed by the hatred of difference". It is now a collective endeavour for "all of us" to defeat the "hatred we stand against today", Sir Keir Starmer said in a speech to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim ...