Controversy has erupted after an Israeli art student reportedly claimed to have stolen items from the Auschwitz death camp for an exhibit, but her school said Thursday the claim was false. The school said the student, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, had in fact taken items from outside the site in Poland, not the camp … Read more
Poland’s chief rabbi on Wednesday condemned a US congressman for recording a video inside a gas chamber at the former Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling it inappropriate activity at a memorial site. “This is a place to be quiet. This is a place to meditate, to think — not a place to make videos and … Read more
A group of naked men and women today slaughtered a sheep in a bizarre ritual at the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland. Fourteen people, aged between 20 and 27, chained themselves together in front of the camp’s infamous ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes you free’) sign, according to museum staff. The group also … Read more