In the visitors book, His Majesty wrote: ‘Remembering what took place here, and those who were so cruelly murdered is a duty; a sacred duty that must be protected.’
It was, royal sources said, a poignant day for the King. ‘As anyone who has visited the camp can avow, it has a profound impact on the soul,’ they told VanityFair, ‘bringing home both the scale of the horrors and the lessons that must be learned for eternity.’ The visit to Poland was, the source continued, ‘a deeply personal pilgrimage for the King – paying tribute both as man and monarch.’
Earlier in the day, His Majesty returned to the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow, which he opened in 2008, to meet with Holocaust survivors. He issued a stark warning against the ‘dangerous re-emergence of antisemitism,’ while describing Holocaust Memorial Day as ‘a moment when we recall the depths to which humanity can sink when evil is allowed to flourish.’
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