A Dutch Holocaust museum is handing out pieces of barbed wire from a Nazi concentration camp to visitors, who can keep them as "souvenirs," the Forward (Jewish) website reports today (November 28, 2012).
RTV Utrecht -- a local television channel -- reported that the management of the Camp Amersfoort National Monument decided to give away the wire, after it had been criticized for putting the wire for sale at $12 for each piece earlier this month.
The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) -- a watchdog on anti-Semitism -- asked the museum to stop selling the wire. CIDI Deputy Director Esther Voet said that some descendants of resistance fighters found the sale inappropriate. She added the pieces of wire could reach collectors of Nazi memorabilia.
The wire once surrounded a Nazi concentration camp in which Nazis placed Dutch resistance fighters. Also detained at the camp was a Jewish contingent of forced labor prisoners. Most of them did not survive the Holocaust.
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