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5/3/20

USA: Woman holds sign targeting Jewish governor at anti-lockdown protest in Illinois

As protests against stay-at-home orders and safety measures amid the novel coronavirus continue nationwide, protesters are resorting to degrading and racist slogans to depict their frustration with state officials. In Illinois, an unidentified woman was photographed;Friday at a “Re-Open Illinois” rotest with a sign that read: “Arbeit Macht Frei, JB” allegedly referring to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who is of Jewish descent. The sign written in German refers to the phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei,” found outside of Nazi concentration camps including Auschwitz. It translates to “work will set you free.”

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photo, shared on social media, quickly went viral prompting a response from the official account of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum on Twitter. The museum called the action, a “symptom of moral & intellectual degeneration.” More than one million people were killed at the camp during the Holocaust. According to BuzzFeed News, the photo was taken by Dennis Kosuth, a nurse attending the protest as a counter-protester. Kosuth told the news outlet that when he asked the woman about the sign, she defended it saying she had Jewish friends

Read more at: Daily Kos

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