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King to visit Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day

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King Charles will become first British head of state to visit Auschwitz .

He will join survivors and other dignitaries at a service at the former concentration camp.

The King will lay a light of remembrance at the end of the service to honour those who lost their lives.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration camp and was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe 's Jewish population.