July 10, 2015
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has called on The Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow to pull “Game of Tag,” a video installation created by Polish artist Artur Zmijewski that shows naked men and women playing a game of tag in a former gas chamber.
Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the ADC, issued the following statement:
“Once again, the vulgarisation of the Shoah has reached a new low. This reprehensible and insulting spectacle cheapens, trivialises and exploits the Holocaust at the expense of its victims, survivors and their families. This tasteless video installation provides no insight and does not bring visitors closer to understanding the culture of remembrance. Instead, it degrades the historical record of what really happened inside the death camps and the gas chambers where millions of people were callously murdered. A museum should provide an appropriate and serious avenue for relating the horrors of the Nazi regime, not a forum to desecrate the Holocaust and debase the feelings of those who suffered at the hands of the Third Reich. There is nothing funny, amusing or entertaining about the gas chambers. The Holocaust should generate gut-wrenching awe and shock. Whether we like it or not, the generations to come will learn about the Holocaust from the words and images created and represented by popular culture. Any medium that touches this incomprehensible evil must do so with great sensitivity, responsibility and understanding. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow has made an error in judgement and should pull the exhibit without delay.
.”For more information, please contact Dr. Dvir Abramovich on, 9272-5677
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