The Auschwitz Museum and Memorial and Illinois' governor denounced the use of Nazi slogans at a Chicago protest to ease lockdown measures after a photo of a woman holding a sign with a German phrase circulated online.
The woman said that she is not a Nazi and that she has Jewish friends, according to Kosuth. NBC News was unable to identify and locate her for comment.on Twitter and said the phrase on her sign was a"cynical illusion" given to prisoners at the death camp."Those words became one of the icons of human hatred," the museum tweeted."It's painful to see this symbol instrumentalized & used again to spread hate.
In a statement Saturday, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who is Jewish, addressed those carrying"signs filled with hate" at the protest against his strict lockdown measures.by working with Holocaust survivors. The meaning of that swastika is apparently unknown to the people who are carrying it, or if it is known, it's a demonstration of the hate that is among us.
"These were a few hundred demonstrators yesterday — but there are millions of people in the state who are doing the right thing, protecting each other during this extraordinary crisis," Pritzker said."I am so grateful to live in a state with those millions of really good people."
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