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The t-shirt on sale in Paris.
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PARIS (EJP)---A sleeveless t-shirt with anti-Semitic inscriptions was found on sale in a northern Paris shop last weekend.
The inscriptions on the t-shirt read in German "Juden Eintritt in die parkanlagen verboten" (No Entry for Jews in the Park) and in Polish "Zydome wstep do parku wzbroniony," reproducing a ban to Jews in the Lodz ghetto in 1940.
It was found and bought for 18 euros last weekend in Belleville, in Paris's 19th district, by the French National Bureau of Vigilance against anti-Semitism (BNVCA), a group monitoring anti-Semitic incidents in France.
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The inscriptions -- "Juden eintritt in die parkanlagen verboten" in German, and "Zydom wstep do parku wzbronionyio" in Polish -- are reproduced from 1940 banners targeting the Jews of Lodz, in central Poland.Ninety-five percent of the 200,000 Jews who were held in the ghetto later died in concentration camps.
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An AFP reporter found five of the grey, sleeveless woollen tops -- labelled with the brand "Introfancy IF" -- on sale early Tuesday, but when he returned shortly afterwards they had been withdrawn.
The sales assistant said they had just been bought by a single customer.
She added that she did not know the meaning of the inscriptions.
Sammy Ghozlan, head of the National Bureau of BNVCA said he had filed a formal complaint with the Paris police.