A Polish anti-vaccine rally organised by far-right lawmakers drew criticism for using a slogan referencing the infamous 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”.
The slogan triggered 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 tweeted.
“I find it unbelievable that such Holocaust distortion can happen 300 km from where the original sign stands,” she added.