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The Auschwitz museum issued Tuesday a protest to the
Dutch embassy in Poland seeking the removal from the Internet of an offensive clip that uses imagery from the Nazi death camp.
"The museum protests this outrage against the memory of the victims of the Nazi camps," the museum’s director Jerzy Wroblewski was quoted as saying by the Polish news agency PAP.
The clip purports to advertise a techno party called "Housewitz" and plays upon the slogan at the entry of the Auschwitz camp, turning "Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes free) into "Tanzen macht frei" (Dance makes free).
It also shows images of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau where 1.1 million people were killed, mostly European Jews.
The advertisement said the dance festival was held on May 5, on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The museum director asked the Dutch government "to take measures to remove the advertisement" from the Internet.
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