The museum that preserves the site of the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz issued a statement condemning the recently released Amazon TV series, “Hunters.”
Specifically, the people behind the museum took issue with a scene that shows a murderous game of human chess being played at Auschwitz, arguing that such a thing never took place there and that introducing it in the plot is dangerous and foolish.
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“Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors. Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future deniers. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy,” the organization tweeted Sunday.
Museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki said Monday that authors and artists have a special obligation to tell the truth about Auschwitz and that the “Hunters” authors did not contact the museum for facts.
“If anyone wants to show human tragedy in Auschwitz it is enough to reach for the thousands of sources (survivors’ testimonies) that are deeply shocking, but creating fiction that distorts the history of this real place is disrespectful of the people who suffered here,” Sawicki told The Associated Press.
He said the museum is always willing to provide factual advice to anyone studying or working on Auschwitz history.
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“Hunters” creator and executive producer, David Weil, whose grandmother, Sara Weil, survived the Holocaust, issued a statement to Fox News in which he explained the decision to invent an atrocity at Auschwitz rather than borrow from a more true-to-life event.