Boris in Auschwitz tribute to UK synagogue victims

BORIS Johnson visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time yesterday and vowed to show solidarity with Britain's Jewish community.

- BY RICHARD ASHMORE

Antisemitism is on rise as he marks anniversary of Kristallnacht. Inset top, Melvin Cravitz and, below, Adrian Daulby

The former prime minister's visit came against a backdrop of rising antisemitism in the UK and Europe and the deaths of two Jews in a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester.

Mr Johnson joined Jewish leaders, European ministers and Holocaust survivors to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom of Jews in Germany that foreshadowed the murder of 1.1 million men, women and children in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

Hero Rabbi Daniel Walker from Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester travelled with the former Conservative leader and appeared alongside him at an event in Krakow the night before.

Rabbi Walker spoke movingly about the two men from his synagogue, Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby, who were killed in the terror attack on October 2.