A photograph taken at an Orange Order fancy dress party has caused outrage after it was posted on social media.

The picture, of a group dressed as Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and two child Holocaust victims wearing yellow stars, was taken at an event in Scotland and has sparked an angry reaction among Scottish Jews.

Another party-goer was dressed in blackface with an afro wig and a necklace fashioned from bones, while another pair appeared to mock the child abuse scandal in the Catholic clergy.

The offending photographs were taken at an Orange Order-affiliated event at the Airdrie and District Orange Hall in Scotland, at Halloween parties held in 2010 and 2013.

They were posted to the Whinhall True Blues Flute Band’s Facebook page, but have now been taken down.

Ephraim Borowski, the director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, said the photographs should be “condemned in the strongest terms”.

Mr Borowski added: “The meticulously planned industrialised murder of six million people solely on the grounds of their ethnicity is not a joke, and neither is anything that glorifies those who planned it.  

“Racism, including racism against Jewish people – antisemitism – must always be condemned in the strongest terms, and we would urge the Orange Order to do so.”

Taken in 2013, one of the photographs shows a man dressed as Hitler, with a female companion clearly dressed as Eva Braun. Two children stand in front of them, wearing rags and yellow stars - similar to those Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany.

The Herald reported that a comment posted on Facebook underneath the photograph read: “Congratulations to our joint winners!!!”

The Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland have been approached for comment.