Members of Austria’s right-wing government are being asked not to attend an upcoming memorial ceremony at the site of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Leon Zelman, a Holocaust survivor and an organizer of the May 7 event, said Jorg Haider, whose xenophobic Freedom Party is part of Austria’s ruling coalition, has “trampled” on the moral values the event wants to commemorate.
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