Auschwitz Museum Blasts Anti-vaxxers for Donning Yellow Stars in Protest [View all]

Demonstrators at anti-vaccination protests and rallies across the U.S. last week donned yellow stars and used Holocaust imagery to emphasize their "persecution" for their refusal to vaccinate their children, sparking protest in faraway Poland.

The protests took place after a New York’s Rockland County declared a state of emergency on March 26, following a frightening spike in measles cases.


In Texas, anti-vaccination activist Del Bigtree addressed the crowd at a rally organized by Texans for Vaccine Choice wearing a yellow star. Bigtree produces audio and video programs arguing the dangers of vaccines - whose 2016 film Vaxxed: From to Cover-Up to Catastrophe has been pulled from major film festivals.


In response to a photo of Bigtree posted on Twitter, the official account of the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum tweeted in response: "Instrumentalizing the fate of Jews who were persecuted by hateful anti semitic ideology and murdered in extermination camps like #Auschwitz with poisonous gas in order to argue against vaccination that saves human lives is a symptom of intellectual and moral degeneration."


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