One Jewish visitor said seeing the showers was like a 'punch in the gut'

But the showers have been compared to gas chambers used to kill Jews

Jewish visitors to the Auschwitz concentration camp have spoken of their shock after showers were put up at the entrance to help them cope with the hot weather.

With temperatures in Poland soaring up to 37 degrees, the showers which spray a fine mist of water, greeted visitors at the former death camp.

However, the move has resulted in angry complaints led by a group of Israeli visitors, after comparisons were drawn to the showers used in gas chambers by the Nazis to kill millions of Jews.

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The showers set up at the entrance of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which spray a fine mist of water to help cool down visitors

As temperatures reached up to 37 degrees in Poland, the Auschwitz museum took the decision to install the showers

Meyer Bolka, who was visiting the museum told local media that seeing the showers was like a 'punch in the gut'.

He explained: 'As soon as I got off the bus, I walked into the shower contraption. I was in shock. I walked up to the reception and asked the worker there about the showers, she said it was a hot day.'

He added that as a Jewish person, the showers were a clear reminder of the horrors of the gas chambers, especially for older visitors, with many being very angry.

Mr Bolka said: 'I think that in a place like this they should have thought about the type of connotation this would raise.

'If you want to cool the people down, you need to find another solution. It was not a pleasant sight to see those sprinklers.'

Some Jewish visitors have likened the showers to the gas chambers used by Nazis to kill Jews at the death camp

The museum management have since issued a statement saying they did not mean to cause offence, and that the showers had been introduced for the comfort of visitors

The museum management have since issued a statement saying they did not mean to cause offence, and that the showers had been introduced for the comfort of visitors.

However, they said they will review the location of the showers for future visitors.

They also added: 'It is really hard for us to comment on some suggested historical references since the mist sprinklers do not look like showers and the fake showers installed by Germans inside some of the gas chambers were not used to deliver gas into them.

'Zyklon B was dropped inside the gas chambers in a completely different way - through holes in the ceiling or airtight drops in walls.'

Auschwitz was a network of concentration camps and extermination centres built and operated by the Nazis in parts of southern Poland which were annexed by Germany during the Second World War.

Auschwitz was a network of concentration camps and extermination centres built and operated by the Nazis to kill Jews

A dominant symbol of the Holocaust, it went on to become a major site of the Nazis' 'Final Solution to the Jewish question', with Jews delivered to its gas chambers from all over German occupied Europe.

Guards would tell new arrivals selected for extermination that they were to take a shower and undergo delousing, before leading them into chambers disguised as communal showers.

There the victims - mainly women, children and the elderly who were not considered useful enough specimens for the labour camps - would be locked in and gassed with the pesticide Zyklon B.

It is believed that at least 1.1million prisoners died at Auschwitz, either by gassing or by being worked to death, 90 per cent of them Jews.