King Charles marks Holocaust Memorial Day

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King Charles has marked Holocaust Memorial Day at Buckingham Palace.

The King welcomed Holocaust survivors and three organisations to the London royal residence which educate future generations about the Holocaust.

His Majesty met Manfred Goldberg, who survived concentration camps and death marches during World War II, in the Bow Room. Goldberg and the King then lit a memorial candle at the palace during the reception made by groups across the UK as part of the “80 Candles for 80 Years” initiative.

King Charles also viewed a display of the candleholders created as part of the 80th-anniversary project by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Buckingham Palace said the King lit a candle in memorial of the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.

 

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His Majesty then saw a demonstration of the digital education programme in schools – ‘Testimony 360: People and Places of the Holocaust’ by the Holocaust Educational Trust. This programme allows students to have conversations with Holocaust survivors and ask them about their experiences.

Lastly, the King watched a short performance from ‘Echo Eternal,’ a commemorative arts and community engagement project by CORE Education Trust and The National Youth Music Theatre.

This was King Charles’s first official engagement of 2025.

Holocaust Memorial Day is celebrated annually on 27 January. King Charles will be in Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz alongside other European royals on Holocaust Memorial Day.

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