The prime minister and his family made a private trip to Poland this weekend, the JC understands.
Starmer, his wife Victoria – who is Jewish – and two children made the visit as part of a long weekend, during which the prime minister wanted to take them to find the house that his wife’s grandparents once lived in.
Her grandparents fled to England from the small village they lived in, located a couple of hours near Warsaw, prior to the First World War.
None of Victoria’s extended family who remained in Poland survived the horrors of the Nazis.
The prime minister made his first visit to Auschwitz in Poland in January last year, where he was accompanied by his wife.
Writing for the JC after his visit, Starmer said that “nothing” could prepare him for what he saw.
“My wife was equally moved by what she saw today. It was her second visit, but no less harrowing than the first time she stepped through that gate and witnessed the depravity of what happened here.”
He continued: “The truth that I have seen here today will stay with me for the rest of my life. So too, will my determination to defend that truth, to fight the poison of antisemitism and hatred in all its forms, and to do everything I can to make ‘never again’ mean what it says, and what it must truly mean: never again.”
Earlier this year, Lady Starmer was visibly moved when she recalled her visit to Auschwitz at a reception she hosted in Downing Street ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day this year alongside survivor Annick Lever and young ambassadors from the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).
In 2025, Starmer and the prime minister jointly hosted an intimate reception, believed to be the first of its kind, where survivors from Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Kindertransport children and those taken to Windermere after the war and their descendants were hosted for tea and sandwiches at the prime minister’s residence and centre of government.
The pair made their way across three different tables of guests to hear their stories.
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