Anger after Australian Jew films video of her family singing 'I Will Survive' on a trip to Auschwitz



An Australian woman has posted a video of her family singing and dancing along to the Gloria Gaynor hit 'I Will Survive' while on a trip to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.

Jane Korman, who is Jewish, posted the video of her 89-year-old father Adolk - who survived the Holocaust - and her three children dancing to the hit inside the infamous extermination centre where as many as 1.1million people were killed during World War Two.

At one point, her father is seen wearing a t-shirt which 'I will survive' written across its front.

Insensitive: Jane Korman posted footage of her family singing and dancing to Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive' outside Auschwitz

Mrs Korman has defended herself against claims of tastelessness and said the recording was 'a celebration of life and survival'.

She said: 'I wanted to make artwork that creates a fresh interpretation of historical memory.'

The video, posted on YouTube, showed the Korman family dancing in front of the Auschwitz sign 'Arbeit Macht Frei' - Work Sets Your Free - a Polish synagogue, the German concentration camp at Dachau, the Czech concentration camp at Theresienstadt and a memorial in Lodz, Poland, to victims of the Nazi ghetto.

But the recording has sparked anger among many of those who survived the horrors of the camp and neo-Nazi groups have posted it on their websites.

Footage: Mrs Korman said her video was a 'fresh affirmation of historical memory'

Anger: The footage also includes shots of the family dancing outside Terestenstadt Concentration Camp in the Czech Republic

Kamil Cwiok, 86, was just a child when he and his family were rounded up by the Nazis. Most of his family died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

He said: 'I don't see how this video is a mark of respect for the millions who didn't survive, nor for those who did.

'It seems to trivialise the horrors that were committed there.'

Mrs Korman added: 'It might be disrespectful, but he (her father) is saying "we're dancing, we should be dancing, we're celebrating our survival and the generations after me" - the generation he created.

'We are affirming our existence.'

The video also shows the family dancing at Dachau concentration camp, a Polish synagogue and a memorial in Lodz

The family are wearing white t-shirts with I will survive written on the front

The video, which was displayed in an Australia art gallery, was also picked up by neo-Nazi websites.

One comment said: 'Look, the Jews are still dancing in every corner. We aren't through with them; we will finish them in the next Holocaust.'

Mrs Korman said her mother - who also survived the gas chambers - had refused to travel to Poland where the death camp is based because it held 'too many bad memories'.