David Walsh

David Walsh apologises for ‘offensive, sloppy’ Holocaust comment

MONA founder David Walsh has apologised for comments he made about about visitors to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In comments on his blog posted on Wednesday, Mr Walsh referred to the people who visit the former concentration camp each year as “creepy f…s”.

More than 1.1 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime in gas chambers of Auschwitz.

The camp has since become a memorial to the victims and a World Heritage site visited by more than one million people a year.

“I didn’t build Mona to serve the sort of creepy f…s that go to Auschwitz,” Mr Walsh wrote.

Read the full article by David Killick at The Mercury (subscriber only).