Thursday, September 6, 2012
Plan for crematorium next to Nazi concentration camp in Poland provoke outrage
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9523105/Plan-for-crematorium-next-to-Nazi-concentration-camp-in-Poland-provoke-outrage.html
Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors had reacted with fury to the proposal by a funeral company to build a crematorium next to Majdanek, which claimed perhaps as many as 300,000 lives, with many of the victims’ remains incinerated in seven ovens.
Abraham Foxman, national director of the New-York based Jewish organisation the Anti-Defamation League, and Holocaust survivor, described the plans by the company Styks as “reprehensible” and “outrageously insensitive”, and urged local authorities to halt the development.
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