Auschwitz museum orders visiting Israeli soldiers to remove flags
In what is believed to be the first time such an order has occurred at the event, the 'humiliating' incident was blamed on 'antisemitism and an attempt to reshape the historical narrative' by a member of the delegation.
The group of 180 Israel Defence Forces (IDF) personnel and security officers were visiting as part of the long-standing Witnesses in Uniform programme, which aims to uphold the memory of the Holocaust through exposure to historic sites.
It took place at the site of the former extermination camp run by Nazi Germany. Some 1.1. million people, primarily Jews but also Poles, Roma and Sinti and Soviet prisoners of war were murdered at the camp close to what is now the Polish city of Oswiecim.
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