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Controversial Plan Adding Amusement Park To Auschwitz Museum Alarms Jewish Groups - Continued

Critics of the plan have characterized Jaroslaw as “tone deaf” to Jewish sensitivities. Perhaps most galling for Jewish groups and other onlookers is Jarosław’s suggestion that actors depicting Jewish prisoners and Nazi guards will mingle with park visitors.  “This is not Mickey Mouse at Disneyland,” said Mindy L. Cohen, President of the international Holocaust charity Always Remember.  (Always Remember benefits indigent Holocaust survivors.)  “No amusement park should be built near Auschwitz no matter what the intent is,” she said.

The Polish government has not responded to the plans, but Auschwitz I might face at least local opposition.  Oświęcim City Administrator Bronislaw Pawlak accused Jaroslaw of attempting to profit himself through self-dealing on real estate adjacent to Auschwitz I.  “[Jaroslaw’s] family owns all the land around the camp,” said Pawlak.  “This plan shames Oświęcim but will make Jaroslaw rich.”

“This plan shames Oświęcim but will make Jaroslaw rich.”

Or perhaps there are other motivations.  Jaruzelski Wojciech, the Director of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Operations, has accused Jaroslaw of trying to match Auschwitz II's attendance records.  Wojciech also said that Auschwitz II's five consecutive victories in the museum's intramural soccer competition has driven Jaroslaw “really crazy.”

The last controversy surrounding construction around the camp was in 1984.  In that year Carmelite nuns opened a convent near Auschwitz I.  After some Jewish groups called for the removal of the convent, representatives of the Catholic Church agreed in 1987.