A cat living at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz has caused fur to fly between an animal care group and Polish authorities refusing to allow a shelter to be built for it.
The grey and white cat, known variously as Rudolf or Bruno despite being female, can often be seen sitting near the notorious “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work sets you free”) sign at the entrance to the camp.
She has seemed unperturbed by an unusually cold winter in Poland that has seen night temperatures dip as low as minus 34 Celsius (minus 29 Fahrenheit).
The museum that runs the camp has rejected a call from the group For Animals to build a cat shelter, saying other animals also live at the site and that visitors are its main priority.
“All we asked for was to erect a shelter, but we were refused,” said Joanna Zaremba of the For Animals foundation.
A museum employee tried in vain to give the animal a home.
“The cat was not used to being indoors and the employee had to let her out to feel free. She came straight back (to the camp) like a boomerang, back to the ‘Arbeit macht frei’ gate,” said Adam Cyra, another member of staff.
The cat is believed to have arrived at the camp about six months ago and started to attract the attention of visitors after Polish newspapers and websites reported on the animal’s attachment to the site and the campaign to build a shelter.
(Source: http://www.reuters.com/)
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12 Responses
Maybe its a gilgul.
Maybe its a stray cat.
Millions of Jews were killed and all they care about is a cat who likes the cold?!
#3 couldn’t agree more, typical liberals. abortions are ok (human babies) but save the baby seals, go figure, without hadracha from the torah its all krum
Maybe it’s a gilgul of a stray cat.
Why are you joining the secular media in obsessing over that pathetic sign? Can’t you find anything important to write about?
Maybe its a cat that belonged to a gilgul?
I don’t know what gilgul, but gilgul sheleg for sure!
it was once such a terrible place that nobody cared about human murder but now its so nice and lovely they care deeply about a cats welbeing? dont they still nueter animals there? i cant stand this world. anyone know an exit into sanity?
Couldnt agree more with #4. comment
Why In America is it illegal to kill a bald eagle’s egg but it is not illegal to have an abortion?
To set the confirmation honest, the bald eagle is no longer an endangered species.
In the Beit Knesset where I pray in Israel, there is a stray cat that hangs around the entrance – and doesn’t leave when harassed, when the Torah is being read…. Also a curious thing.
I just wonder how many people who worry about the cat their grandfather or grandmother or father or mother or them themselves would help the Jews in this bitter cold. Watch where they love animals the will kill man. If you believe in global warming, another fraud, how can you believe in pets since production of their food causes global warming. Please leave to Hashem to guard the animals and have men guard each other!!!!!!!!
#5 that was funny