Jewish educator fights back when confronted at Auschwitz for waving Israeli flag

An American educator was recently accosted for holding an Israeli flag outside Auschwitz-Birkenau during a visit to Poland, with a clip showing her heatedly responding to a question as to whether she was ashamed of Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza.

Charlotte Korchak, founder of the US-based Jerusalem Education Institute, said she was “shocked” by the encounter, which came at the end of her first-ever visit to the Nazi concentration camp alongside a group of high school students from Miami.

“As we were leaving, I’m standing on the train tracks leading into Auschwitz, holding an Israeli flag, taking a picture, and a girl had the audacity to come up to me and ask me if I was ashamed for holding the Israeli flag,” she said in an Instagram video after the incident.

“You are killing children,” the unidentified woman told her in the clip, arguing that many Palestinians have died since the Gaza war was sparked by the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.

“You’re not doing this in front of a bunch of Jews outside Auschwitz. Walk away,” Korchak answered, adding that talking about the Palestinian deaths was like talking about the German death toll in World War II.

After the woman said her Gazan friends had been “forced to leave their homes because of you,” Korchak retorted that her friends had been murdered too, in the Nova music festival on October 7 and in suicide bombings while she lived in Israel during the Second Intifada in the 2000s.

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In the video after the incident, Korchak lamented that “even the people visiting Auschwitz have not learned the lesson” from the death camp, referring to the accoster as “an antisemite who is convinced she’s just an anti-Zionist.”

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