Outcry over Polish 'NaziSexyMouse' poster

Poznan council member Norbert Napieraj said it should not be displayed because it “is a form of violence against the sensitivity of many people.”

Alicja Kobus, the head of Poznan's Jewish community, also condemned the work as revolting. She said: "It is a shock for people who still scarred by the hell of the Holocaust.”

But gallery director Maria Czarnecka said: "Art should be provocative and controversial.”

This is the latest in a series of artistic works which have generated international criticism for their treatment of the Holocaust, including a video of a Holocaust survivor disco dancing at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Poland’s 3.5 million-strong Jewish community was almost wholly obliterated during the Holocaust.