The Polish museum’s director, Maria Anna Potocka, said in a statement that her museum means no disrespect to the memory of the Holocaust.
Ha’aretz
Jewish officials are furious over a video installation at a Polish museum that shows naked men and women playing a game of tag in a gas chamber.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s office in Jerusalem, called the installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow “so offensive and so disgusting that we found it necessary to protest.”
“Game of Tag,” made in 1999 by Polish artist Artur Zmijewski, has for years been accused of taking the Holocaust lightly.
It was displayed among the works of more than 20 artists at a temporary exhibition on the Holocaust running from May 15 through Oct. 31. Zmijewski’s video has been shown at museums in Germany and Estonia, where it has also caused protests.
The World Jewish Congress and Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, have also asked the museum to remove the installation.
In response, the museum recently put it behind an enclosure with a warning.
But Zuroff and other Jewish officials say it isn’t enough. Zuroff said it is “simply incomprehensible” that the video is being shown in Poland, where Nazi Germany killed millions of Jews and non-Jews.
Jonathan Ornstein, the executive director of the Jewish Community Center of Krakow, a city with a once-vibrant Jewish community nearly wiped out in the Holocaust, said survivor groups from around the world have contacted him recently to tell him how upset they are.
“They feel that it shows a lack of respect for the victims, that it is not necessary and that it takes the Holocaust lightly,” Ornstein said.
The museum’s director, Maria Anna Potocka, said in a statement on Tuesday that her museum means no disrespect to the memory of the Holocaust, saying “we have tried to awaken (the) young generation’s empathy with the tragedy of the Holocaust by stirring their imagination.”
Reblogged this on Lolathecur's Blog Below are two very important entries from the "Jewish Encyclopedia". Read them VERY CLOSELY..
In memory of the Holocaust that never happened?. The Jews should be ashamed to see that the real crimes they have committed for long time have been excised from the history books.
You must understand , the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians, they hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It can not be overstated. Bolsheviks committed the greatest human slaughter of all the time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global news media is in the hands of the perpetrators, the Judaic Mafia.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
‘Gas Chamber?’. You mean the rinky dink building ,Stalin’s Jewish NKVD, had built in 1948, to proove the “Holocaust?”.
‘Upon inspection of camps for detained enemy civilian s no homicidal equipment found”. International Red Cross report,also of 1948.
Funny how people can enter these ‘chambers’. Something that awful,and that ‘contaminated’,should be sealed off !
Are you all aware, no traces of cyanide gas/Zylon B,is anywhere !
I must add..Nazi Germany, fund not ,”kill millions in Poland”….my goodness,they where busy !
Fighting a multi front,war, and for no reason ,killing millions.”.
That Jew Ziurf is a fool !
It would it taken Nazi Germany, 75 years, to kill,and 35 to cremate there magic number 6 million, let soon,”millions”,of others. The war only lasted five,and half years.
Looks cool to me.. Jews get upset over stupid crap it’s not funny. Get over the Holocaust !!! It was 75 years ago and Poles plus we Ukrainian youth don’t want to hear it.
The bigger the lie the most people will believe it. I am an old man (70) and I have read about the WWII since I was 19. Like the rest of the population I believed the lies the Jews were bombarding us about WWII. When I read Main Kamp and spoke to a German Lady who told us all the lies the Press had told us about every thing I started looking for the truth. In 1968 there was just a few books to read on the issue that were reliable but after the brilliant little book of Jimmy Carter “Peace Not Apartheid” hundreds of books started coming out in the market and with the discovery of the INTERNET, we can see now many links that have unearthed all the truth about the real enemies of humanity. We all need to do our part. !!!!!!!!! Spread the word !!!!!!!!.
there were no gas chambers….there were delousing chambers….jews were riddled with typhus ticks like a mangy dog