A Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust in a shelter run by a Protestant church, his father was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and many of his relatives were killed. He depicted the reserved seat for Netanyahu at the memorial as “a desecration of the sacred memory of Holocaust victims.”

“Netanyahu is a straightforward war criminal and Poland’s decision to provide him with assistance, a platform and safe passage is an outrage,” he said. “He even made a statement in Yad Vashem” — Israel’s Holocaust memorial — that ‘never again is now,’ linking what they were doing to the Palestinians with the Holocaust. It’s criminal to do that. They’re openly enacting a genocide in Gaza. There’s no other interpretation when 2,000-pound bombs are indiscriminately raining down on civilians.”

“Netanyahu shouldn’t be at an Auschwitz memorial. He deserves to be hauled up for trial in The Hague.”