A sign displayed by an anti-lockdown protester at a demonstration in Chicago was blasted by the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial, and the governor of Illinois as a slogan of hate once used in Nazi death camps.
The field hospital in Central Park, which has treated over 300 COVID-19 patients, prepares to close down as the number of new cases for the coronavirus decreases.
Demonstrators rally against Illinois stay-at-home order outside the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago, May 1, 2020."'Arbeit macht frei' was a false, cynical illusion the SS gave to prisoners of #Auschwitz. Those words became one of the icons of human hatred. It's painful to see this symbol instrumentalized & used again to spread hate. It's a symptom of moral & intellectual degeneration," reads the tweet from the museum and memorial.
Pritzker also took to Twitter to condemn such Nazi symbols being used at what organizers had billed as a peaceful protest. The demonstration, one of several protests throughout the state this weekend against Pritzker's stay-at-home orders, came as the number of coronavirus cases in Illinois climbed to 58,505, with 2,559 deaths, according to the latest data released Saturday by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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