Tourists who recently visited the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland were horrified to see “showers” installed at the entrance of the site, where over a million Jews were killed in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms.
Jewish groups have expressed outrage on Friday over news that the unveiling of a Holocaust monument in Kavala, in northern Greece, was delayed because local authorities sought the removal of a Star of David.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a former Auschwitz prisoner and member of Poland's underground WWII resistance who helped save Jews and later served twice as the country's Foreign Minister, died in Warsaw at the age of 93.
Each year, marchers commemorate more than a million people – the vast majority of them Jewish men, women, and children – who were murdered in the death camp.
“There are Jewish communities in Europe that again feel insecure and we have been sadly reminded that violent anti-Semitism, intolerance and fanaticism remain a threat, ” EU says.