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Harrisburg church apologizes for grade
school Halloween float displaying Auschwitz
gates phrase

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Posted By: mc squared, 11/2/2025 1:08:13 PM

A Pennsylvania diocese has apologized for a shocking grade school Halloween parade float that displayed a replica of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp gate. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg formally apologized Friday for the offensive float’s appearance during Thursday evening’s Halloween parade. Bishop Timothy Senior said he was “shocked and appalled to learn” the float entered by the St. Joseph Catholic School in Hanover, which resembled the Auschwitz Concentration Camp gate, included the words “Arbeit Macht Frei.” The German phrase — translating to “Work Makes You Free” — was prominently displayed at World War II-era concentration camps across Europe, including the front gate at Auschwitz, where more than 1 million people were executed

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The kids didn't come with that on their own. Some teachers/administrators thought it was a good idea, and maybe even suggested it?
Fire the bunch of them.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Catherine 11/2/2025 1:15:22 PM (No. 2025098)
What those poor Jews went through at Auschwitz is unforgivable. I agree, it was an adult who suggested this and this person needs to be fired yesterday! But now Rome has a prayer room for Muslims so who knows what direction the church is going in. And I went to Catholic school from first to sixth grade. That's when it was a real church. Now, not so much.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mossley 11/2/2025 1:18:31 PM (No. 2025099)
#1, the story states the guy who built the float changed the design without telling anyone. He said it was because a part for the float didn't arrive in time. Odd how he had time to look up, build and install a replica of a concentration camp gate, though.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 11/2/2025 1:26:12 PM (No. 2025104)
What OP said.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 11/2/2025 1:33:50 PM (No. 2025105)
I found no "explanation" in the article. There is none. This float should hot have been allowed to participate. Lots of dirty hands in this one.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: itsonlyme 11/2/2025 1:34:10 PM (No. 2025106)
NO apology accepted until the name(s), and current location, of the "educator(s" that signed off on this hideous display is released to the general public.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 11/2/2025 2:10:43 PM (No. 2025128)
Those kids did what they wanted, wallowed in it, gave her rather lame 'sorry' and expected to be let off the hook. What did the Jews in the community think? Did they believe they were sincere?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: mifla 11/2/2025 3:35:29 PM (No. 2025144)
So not a single school official noticed this float during the staging of the parade? Yeah, sure.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Strike3 11/2/2025 3:51:14 PM (No. 2025151)
Whoever thought that was a good idea should be given the concentration camp tour - then locked in there overnight. This was incredibly stupid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 11/2/2025 3:53:42 PM (No. 2025152)
I wonder how far a KKK float would have gotten. Cheap costumes, just sheets and and a few nooses for drama effect.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: JackBurton 11/2/2025 4:09:48 PM (No. 2025160)
There MIGHT be A way of doing it in good taste, to celebrate the end of that kind of treatment of Jews.... and Poles--including Roman Catholics. The Nazis were equal opportunity oppressors, after all. But there are also a couple dozen ways to misinterpret that or just blanket condemn it without knowing the intent. After all, we DO remember what happened to the Covington teens at the Right to Life rally. A SMART person would not have touched this with a ten foot pole and would have hidden all poles eleven feet and longer. Of course, a malignant person couild have suggested or approved the design, but who is going to go there?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mossley 11/2/2025 9:34:19 PM (No. 2025253)
Per my earlier reply, I got this article confused with the one posted at the DM. It contained more information than the NYP version of the story.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Rumblehog 11/2/2025 9:42:44 PM (No. 2025257)
What sick b-tards these people are. Sick b-tards who have never missed a meal, or experienced someone dying in their arms of dysentery.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: MNluxiegal 11/3/2025 11:28:18 AM (No. 2025437)
I am surprised that a Catholic School would even participate in a Halloween parade. Most Catholic schools promote costumes that honor saints for Halloween.
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