Britain's King Charles to visit Poland for Auschwitz commemorations

Britain’s King Charles will visit Poland later this month to attend commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp in World War Two.

Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Monday Charles would attend a commemoration service on Jan 27 at Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial, which preserves the death camp set up on Polish soil by Nazi Germany.

More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, perished in gas chambers at the camp or from starvation, cold and disease.

Ahead of the event, Charles will meet members of the local community in Krakow and Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, Buckingham Palace said. It will be Charles’ fifth visit to the country.