Your paper dated 25 April 2008, carried an article under the by-line of Naomi Levin. The article deals with the “March of the Living” staged annually in Auschwitz. The purpose of the march, according to its organisers, is to educate Jewish Youth and to inculcate in them the horrors of the Holocaust.

The article ends with a sentence: The participants complete a three-kilometre march between two Nazi – Polish concentration camps, Auschwitz and Birkenau (underlined Z.S.)

The article appeared just after the uplifting ceremony commemorating the sixty-fifth anniversary of the uprising in Warsaw Ghetto which was attended by the President of Israel, Shimon Perez.

Your article displays gross insensitivity, and placing the hyphen between the words “Polish” and “Nazi”, to a Pole, is offensive and bears the hallmark of deliberate libel.

Zbigniew Sudull, Spokesman
Polish Ex- Servicemen’s Association
Australia Branch

Brisbane, 30 April 2008

PS. For your information: On the UNESCO heritage list it is called “Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp (1940 – 1945)".[] whc.unesco.org/en/list