Designer apologizes for Holocaust symbolism on Pennsylvania Halloween parade float

HANOVER, Pa. (WHTM) — Some in a Pennsylvania community are voicing their concerns after photos were posted to Facebook of a Halloween parade float that depicted Holocaust symbolism.

The float, entered into the Hanover Area Jaycees Halloween parade by St. Joseph School in York and towed by Metcalf Cleaning LLC, depicted a replica of an Auschwitz concentration camp gate with the phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which is translated to “Work sets you free.”

The phrase is a prominent symbol of the Nazi concentration camps that killed over six million Jewish people during the Holocaust, according to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum…

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