Polish primary school play recreates Auschwitz death camp gassing

Outrage in Poland as children recreate Auschwitz death camp in primary school play with pupils wearing swastika armbands pretending to GAS seven-year-olds

• Primary school in Łabunie, Poland, saw pupils recreate Nazi concentration camp
• Six children wearing striped uniforms ‘played dead’ as gas wafted on the stage
• Two boys dressed as Gestapo agents with swastika armbands then watched on
• A girl wearing a skull and crossbones cape danced around the ‘dead’ children 

A Polish primary school has caused outrage after pupils wearing swastika armbands recreated the Auschwitz death camp and pretended to gas seven-year-olds.

The school in the village of Łabunie saw six pupils, some with partially shaven heads, dressed in distinctive grey-striped prison uniform of the Nazi concentration camps and lay on the floor as others danced around them.

With a backdrop of barbed wire, the children in prisoner outfits dropped to the ground as smoke wafted across the stage to simulate the gas chambers.

Two students in black Gestapo trench coats stood to attention while a young girl wearing a skull and crossbones cape danced to dramatic music around the children ‘playing dead’.

In show’s climax, the ‘good guys’ then appear to defeat the Nazis and resurrect the children.  

Polish schoolchildren in Łabunie reenacted the Auschwitz mass killings complete with striped uniforms, Gestapo swastika armbands and gas wafting across the stage 

Gas was even shot across the stage as a group of children aged around seven lay on the floor

After the dance a speaker whose parents died at Auschwitz reportedly told the audience that Poland deserved compensation from Germany for the atrocities of the Second World War. 

Lawmakers who opposed seeking German reparations deserved to have their heads shaved as if they were Nazi collaborators, another speaker reportedly then added. 

Newsweek Polska magazine reported that the mayor of Łabunie, who is from the ruling right-wing populist Law and Justice party, ‘told the children that they must defend Latin civilization’. 

Mariusz Kukiełka went on to claim the political left was trying to create a ‘godless society’, similar to Nazi Germany.

She reportedly said: ‘Nazi Germany was a country which broke the rules of natural law and which was instead based on the norms of law created by man.

‘Today we still have to contend with various people, with leftist groups, which are bent upon creating a new man, a new godless society.’

The controversial event held on December 10 was held to commemorate the renaming of the school to The Children of Zamosc, which is a reference to thousands of Polish children deported by the Nazis. 

Somber music played as the children marched in a circle during the event marking the renaming of the school to commemorate youngsters who were deported by Nazis

Pupils danced around the ‘dead’ children after gas wafted across the stage during the school’s reenactment of the Auschwitz death camps 

Some of the children from the area were forcibly adopted by German families if found to be sufficiently Aryan. 

Some 110,000 Poles, including 30,000 children, were part of a German attempt at ethnically cleanse the area of occupied Poland between 1942 and 1943. 

Children from the area were later transported to the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps. 

A video of the dance performance was published by local newspaper Tygodnik Zamojski, which reportedly described it a ‘moving staging’ of history.

Thousands of schools across the country also held similar events, according to local media.

But the Auschwitz Memorial condemned the performance, saying on Twitter that it was not an appropriate way to educate children about the Holocaust.

After the dance a speaker whose parents died at Auschwitz reportedly told the audience that Poland deserved compensation from Germany for Nazi atrocities on Polish soil 

The Auschwitz Museum tweeted on Tuesday: ‘The idea of dressing up children of this age in SS uniforms and staging death scenes with them is simply bad. 

‘The adults who organized it don’t have the elemental sensitivity needed to educate children about such a difficult and tragic history.’

Polish priest, Wojciech Michal Lemanski, branded the performance ‘terrifying, reckless, blunt and cruel’.

In June another re-enactment of Auschwitz was performed by children at a Catholic primary school in the Polish town of Chojnice.

The performance retold the story of Maksymilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who was murdered at the death camp.

Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1.5 million Polish citizens were deported to German territory for forced labor. 

Hundreds of thousands were also imprisoned and died in Nazi concentration camps. 

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