UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Auschwitz, expressing horror at the site and pledging to combat rising antisemitism, especially following the recent escalation in tensions involving Israel and Hamas.

The visit made the UK leader see more clear than ever before how the industrial-level killing didn’t result from the evil deeds of a few individuals.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday condemned what he called "the poison of antisemitism rising around the world" after a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former German Nazi concentration camp.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the Auschwitz death camp, marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation. He was profoundly impacted by the history of the site and pledged to combat antisemitism.

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 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 visited the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland on Friday ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the site which is seen as a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust.

WARSAW, POLAND - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday condemned what he called "the poison of antisemitism rising around the world" a

British PM says he saw 'sheer horror' at concentration camp which saw industrial-level killing as a 'collective endeavor by thousands of ordinary people'

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

British prime minister Keir Starmer visited Poland on Friday to discuss border issues and military support for Warsaw.View on euronews