Art exhibition video showed naked 'game of tag' in former Nazi gas chamber

During the Holocaust, many of the Nazis' victims were stripped naked before being sent into the gas chambers.

The exhibition was sponsored by the Israeli Embassy in Poland but the embassy has since issued a request for the video to be removed from exhibition.

Collette Avital, director of The Centre of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors, told Israel’s Channel 2 news: “The exhibits were not chosen by the Foreign Ministry… even though I support the freedom of expression, there are parts in the exhibition that are repulsive and offensive.”

On Wednesday, after the filming location was revealed, a letter co-signed by several Holocaust survivors’ groups was sent to Poland’s President Andrzej Duda.

The letter asked whether the artists had applied for permission from the Stutthof administrators to make the video, whether any clear rules exist for proper conduct at the site, and how these are enforced.

“Extensive research recently revealed that the site where the video was filmed is the gas chamber at the Stutthof concentration camp,” the letter said. “It is this discovery which prompted the demand for clarifications from the Polish leaders and the administration of the Stutthof concentration camp site (and museum).”