Minnesota high school students mock Jews being sent to Auschwitz in TikTok video

Two Minnesota high school students are criticized for sharing a video titled “Me and the boys on the way to camp,” which photoshops them dancing in a Nazi boxcar and happily skipping into Auschwitz, on the video social media platform TikTok.

The video contains humorous music, the lyrics of which include, “Tell everybody I’m on my way.”

In response, the Minnetonka High School in Nicollet, Minnesota, where the two boys shown in the video are students, assigned a research paper, entitled “Hitler’s Final Solution at Auschwitz.”

Steve Hunegs, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, says in a statement that he is “ increasingly concerned about a grave empathy deficit, which enables students and others to weaponize their knowledge about the Holocaust to insult the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and further traumatize Jews, at a time when we are experiencing a demonstrative increase in anti-Semitism.”

Hunegs praises Nicollet Public Schools Superintendent Denny Morrow for the “seriousness” with which he has approached the incident.

— JTA