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Melbourne family's dance video spark Auschwitz outrage

A VIDEO of a Melbourne woman's family singing and dancing along to the Gloria Gaynor hit I Will Survive while on a trip to a Nazi death camp has angered Jews across the globe.

Jane Korman, an artist who lives in Ashwood and 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 Auschwitz death camp in Poland where as many as 1.1 million people were killed during World War II.

Although first displayed at a Monash University gallery in Caulfield last December and published on the online video site YouTube in January, the Dancing Auschwitz video has gone viral over the past few days, racking up more than 200,000 hits....
Read entire article at Herald Sun (AU)