Holocaust survivor groups ask Poland to explain video filmed inside Nazi camp gas chamber

Record ID: 939893

  • Title: Holocaust survivor groups ask Poland to explain video filmed inside Nazi camp gas chamber
  • Date: 30th November 2017
  • Summary: SZTUTOWO (STUTTHOF IN GERMAN), POLAND (JULY 14, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SIGN AT ENTRANCE TO FORMER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP READING (English): "STUTTHOF" 'GATE OF DEATH' AT STUTTHOF CAMP VISITORS AT STUTTHOF CAMP SEEN THROUGH GATE BARBED WIRE AND WATCH TOWER, MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF CAMP IN BACKGROUND VISITORS STANDING IN FRONT OF CAMP BARRACKS, BARBED WIRE FENCE VISITORS
  • Embargoed: 14th December 2017 19:15
  • Keywords: Poland Holocaust survivor film
  • Location: SZTUTOWO, POLAND
  • City: SZTUTOWO, POLAND
  • Country: Poland
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA00179O4JLZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Holocaust survivor groups have asked Poland to explain a video believed to have been filmed at the Stutthof concentration camp, east of the city of Gdansk after comparing the video with footage from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's visit to the camp and its gas chamber last July.
    The video, named "Game of Tag" and filmed in 1999 by Artur Zmijewski, includes naked men and women running around in a concrete room and was exhibited in Krakow in 2015 despite Israeli objections. The filming location at that time was unknown.
    But after the royal visit early this year, experts compared the footage and concluded it was the same concentration camp where the "Game of Tag" was filmed.
    A number of Jewish groups, including the Organization of Holocaust Survivors in Israel and the Simon Wiesenthal center, have now addressed a letter to Polish president Andrzej Duda to explain how the game had been filmed inside a Nazi camp gas chamber and whether the artist had been given permission.
    Stutthof, where some 65,000 people were killed by lethal injection, gas chamber, shooting and hanging, as well as disease and malnutrition, was the first Nazi camp to be set up outside German borders in 1939 and the last camp to be liberated.
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