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Auschwitz visitors with israeli flag verbally assaulted { August 10 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)
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50 Jewish Auschwitz visitors 'verbally assaulted'
August 10, 2004
BY JENNY HAZAN
While on a tour of the museum at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Sunday, a group of around 50 Jewish university students from Israel, the United States and Poland were verbally attacked by a three-member gang of French-speaking male tourists.
The first assailant ran at the group while its members were being guided through a model gas chamber and crematoria and began swearing and hurling anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli insults.
"He told us to go back to Israel and said that we were stupid and should be ashamed to walk around with an Israeli flag," said Maya Ober, a 21-year-old Polish student.
One of the group, Tamar Schuri, an Israeli student from Ben Gurion University, was draped in an Israeli flag.
After the initial altercation, a second assailant grabbed Ober by the arm. "One of the guys held me by the arm and wouldn't let go," said Ober, who lost several members of her family at Auschwitz, a death camp run by Nazi Germany.
"Violence was narrowly averted," added Laurence Weinbaum, Director of Research at the World Jewish Congress and resident scholar for the group, who says the Polish police were not notified of the incident because the assailants did not commit a crime.
Jerusalem Post
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