From Polish anti-vax rally slammed for Holocaust imagery
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A Polish anti-vaccine rally organized by far-right lawmakers draws criticism for using a slogan referencing the infamous Nazi German sign above the gate to the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In a play on words on the “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Makes You Free”) sign, protesters held up a banner that said in Polish: “Vaccination Makes You Free.”
Members of the far-right Confederation party were photographed with the banner at their demonstration “against sanitary segregation” late last night.
The slogan triggers sharp criticism from Israel’s charge d’affaires in Warsaw, Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon.
“Most of my father’s family was murdered in Auschwitz along with more than a million other victims. This sign is disrespectful to their memory,” she tweets. “I find it unbelievable that such Holocaust distortion can happen 300 kilometers from where the original sign stands,” she adds.
The Times of Israel Community.