A board game based on Adolf Hitler’s reign during World War II stocked on major Australian retailer shelves has left children of Holocaust survivors shaken.
The sight of the game, Secret Hitler, being sold in several major games retailers, has led to about 10 complaints to the Anti-Defamation Commission, a Jewish organisation combating anti-Semitism, in the past week.
A daughter of a Holocaust survivor shook when she saw the game in a toy store in Bright.
“I started shaking, I literally saw the Holocaust flash in front of me. I felt as if there were Nazis about to storm into the store. I could barely look at the shopkeeper,” she wrote in her complaint.
“I felt anti-Semitism alive. I couldn’t wait to get out of there.”
Read the article by Christine McGinn in The Australian.