Survivors of Nazi camps outraged by ‘funny’ video

HOLOCAUST survivor groups have demanded that the Polish president explain how a group of naked artists were allowed to film themselves laughing and playing tag in a Nazi gas chamber.

Footage of the chamber’s interior at the Stutthof camp, where 65,000 died, shows the group running around and laughing in a performance piece named Game of Tag.

Filmed in 1999, experts only managed to confirm the filming location earlier this year.

Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has now been asked to explain how the artists were able to access the gas chamber and whether they had permission.

In a letter to Mr Duda, signed by Nazi war criminal investigators at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, as well as the Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, they also urged the president to “clearly, properly condemn this so-called artwork”.

“It’s really outrageous. I hope the Polish president will put in place regulations to make sure stuff like this doesn’t happen again,” the Wiesenthal Center’s Efraim Zuroff told the BBC yesterday.

However, Warsaw Art Museum’s website has defended the performance piece in a post on its website.

The post explained that in Artur Żmijewski’s video, the artists are “naked, they run around, they laugh a lot. But they are also very serious. They know where they are.”