A disco located near the former Auschwitz death camp will close following protests by Jewish organisations and the international community, its landlord said. Jewish groups have pressured Poland to shut the disco, which is located in a former tannery used by the Nazis to sort luggage and clothes of the camp’s inmates, since it opened a year ago.
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