Sir Keir, who is in Poland for defence and security talks, said "nothing" could have prepared him for the horror of what he had seen.

Starmer and his wife, Victoria Starmer, attended a reception on Downing Street to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

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

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday visited the site of Nazi 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.

The prime minister was on his first visit to the concentration camp where 1.1 million people perished before its liberation 80 years ago.

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.

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.

Keir Starmer, a centrist who worked to fight antisemitism in his party, has become the United Kingdom’s prime minister following Labour’s landslide victory in British elections Thursday.

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.

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,

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday visited ... About 90% of the victims were Jewish. Starmer’s statement noted the antisemitism that has been growing since ...

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