A high school in Wisconsin stops distributing yearbooks after it was discovered that it contained a published anti-Semitic quote by one of the seniors.
“There will always be one true Final Solution,” reads the quote in the yearbook of the New Berlin West High School, WTMJ Milwaukee reports.
An email was sent to school parents to inform them of the offensive quote. In it, school principal Michael Fesenmaier called it “inappropriate and offensive.”
“The quote, unfortunately, went undetected during the yearbook vetting process and was published in the yearbook. We are embarrassed by this oversight, and we apologize that this offensive quote was not detected sooner,” reads the email.
Jostens, the yearbook publisher, will supply the school with stickers to cover up the quote, which refers to the “Final Solution,” the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews at the time of World War II.
The school will place the stickers in the yearbooks that were not yet distributed. The owners of the yearbooks that were distributed on Thursday and Friday will be able to pick up stickers from the school’s office.
— JTA
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