Warsaw - A Jewish group yesterday protested against plans to open a discotheque near the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz in southern Poland.
Local authorities in the town of Oswiecim recently consented to the disco, saying it would be located in a building far removed from the former camp, where nearly 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, were killed during the second World War. They said the building was outside a zone in Oswiecim, the Polish name for the town of Auschwitz, that is protected by a law prohibiting activities that could be offensive to the memory of concentration camp victims.
However, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre said the disco should not be opened because it is to be located at a building that Nazi occupiers used in sorting and storing luggage brought to Auschwitz camp by its victims.