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THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!! RESPECT!!)After learning 2015 video was shot in the Stutthof death camp in Poland, groups representing Holocaust survivors pen letter to country's president asking who gave permission
Groups representing Holocaust survivors have asked Polands president to explain why artists were allowed to film a naked game of tag (warning: graphic images) inside a gas chamber in the former Nazi death camp of Stutthof.
On Wednesday, the Organization of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and several other groups sent the request for clarification to President Andrzej Duda in connection with a video that the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow displayed in 2015 without divulging any details on where it was filmed. The letter was sent after research revealed the location was Stutthof, near Gdansk, Poland.
The organizations that co-signed the letter Wednesday demanded to know whether the artists did obtain permission from the Stutthof administrators to make this video, what rules exist for proper conduct at the site, how these are enforced and whether an investigation of the circumstances of the making of the video had been carried out, the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote in a statement about the letter.
Following protests by Jewish groups and community leaders, the Krakow museum pulled the exhibition but then reinstated it, defending it as falling under freedom of artistic expression.
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What the ever-loving FUCK?!
Stutthof concentration camp
Stutthof was a Nazi German concentration camp established in a secluded, wet, and wooded area near the small town of Sztutowo (German: Stutthof) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Gdańsk in the former territory of the Free City of Danzig. The camp was set up around already existing structures after the invasion of Poland in World War II, used for the imprisonment of Polish intelligentsia.[1] The actual barracks were built in the following year by hundreds of prisoners enslaved in labour commandos.[2]
Stutthof was the first Nazi camp set up outside German borders in World War II,[2] in operation from 2 September 1939. It was also the last camp liberated by the Allies on 9 May 1945. It is estimated that between 63,000 and 65,000 prisoners of Stutthof concentration camp and its subcamps died as a result of murder, epidemics, extreme labour conditions, evacuations, and lack of medical help. Some 28,000 of them were Jews. In total, as many as 110,000 people were deported there in the course of the camp's existence.[2][3]
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(Jewish Group) Jewish groups demand Poland explain naked game of tag in Nazi gas chamber (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Nov 2017
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EllieBC
(2,990 posts)1. What kind of people would participate and help the "artist"
Apparently decency and acknowledgement of great suffering is nonexistent to some "artists".