Auschwitz game available on Google service causes outrage

Availability of game on Google’s app service inviting users to „live like a real Jew in Auschwitz” causes outrage

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 20 June 2016

Auschwitz game available on Google service causes outrage

Colette Avital, the head of the Center of Holocaust Survivor Organizations in Israel, expressed indignation and outrage over a program available on Google Play which invited users to „live like a real Jew in Auschwitz.”

Lauder: ‘If all Jews left Europe tomorrow, it would be sad for the Jews, but a disaster for Europe’

The president of the World Jewish Congress on Sunday addressed the Board of Deputies of British Jews and warned of a growing tide of hatred and terror targeted against Jews and others, including in Britain.

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