Jewish groups protest Polish museum exhibition showing naked people playing tag in gas chamber
Posted July 7, 2015 8:57 am.
Last Updated July 7, 2015 9:40 am.
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WARSAW, Poland – 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 in Jerusalem, called the exhibit 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 violating the dignity of Holocaust victims.
In response to protests, the museum put it behind an enclosure with a warning.
But Zuroff and other Jewish officials say it isn’t enough. He said it is “simply incomprehensible” that the video is being shown in Poland, where Nazi Germany killed millions of Jews and non-Jews.
