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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth

Child survivors standing behind barbed wire after liberation from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Children who survived the Holocaust stand behind barbed wire after liberation from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photograph: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections

The “complex and unsettling” story of what Britain knew during the Holocaust is being explored amid plans to create a new permanent national memorial.

An exhibition highlighting how news of the atrocity reached Britain much earlier than is commonly understood will tour the country after being viewed privately by MPs at Portcullis House on the parliamentary estate at Westminster in September.

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