A Florida woman on Wednesday prompted backlash over her Holocaust-themed Halloween lawn decorations, which included skeletons with concentration camp identification numbers on their arms and the Star of David on their chests, according to local NBC affiliate WFLA.

The woman also placed a sign on her lawn that reads "Arbeit Macht Frei," or "Work sets you free," the German slogan displayed at the entrance of multiple concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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The woman, Susan Lamerton, told the outlet that she has been receiving death threats and complaints about the lawn decorations but asserted that she is protected by freedom of speech.

She said that she is Jewish, adding that she put up the decorations as an act of defiance against her local homeowner's association.

"I have freedom of speech, they have freedom of speech," she told WFLA.

Lamerton said she does not intend to take down the decorations.

One neighbor, Bonnie Katz, told WFLA that it "sickens" her to see the decorations.

"It sickens me that we can have this, you know, with what happened in Pittsburgh," said Katz.

A mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday left 11 congregants dead, an event that has been described as the deadliest attack against Jewish people in U.S. history.

"It sickens me, it sickens me," another local resident, Iris Hookway, told the outlet, who said she cried as she passed the house. "I couldn't fall asleep the first night I found out about it."