More funding for visits to Auschwitz as PM makes Holocaust education pledge

A new National Holocaust Commission has been charged with ensuring that Britain has a permanent Holocaust memorial and educational resources.

Unveiled by prime minister David Cameron, the Commission will include key figures from the Jewish community and will be supported by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).

Mr Cameron is to personally chair the first meeting later this year and has pledged to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration and death camps in Poland in 2014. The Commission is to report back to the prime minister ahead of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 2015.

Mr Cameron made the announcement during a HET appeals dinner on Monday, September 16, when he also confirmed that the government is to increase its support for the HET’s Lessons from Auschwitz project, giving an additional £300,000 of funding each year.