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イスラエル軍：アウシュビッツ強制収容所上空で編隊飛行
第二次大戦中にナチス・ドイツによってユダヤ人を中心に１００万人以上が虐殺されたことで知られるポーランド南部、アウシュビッツ強制収容所跡付近の上空などで４日、イスラエル軍の戦闘機が編隊飛行をした。
イスラエル側は追悼の行為だったと釈明。しかしアウシュビッツ博物館が「軍事力の誇示で不適切だ」とする反対声明を事前に出す中での実施で、ポーランド国内では批判の声も出た。
ポーランド通信などによると、同収容所近くのビルケナウ強制収容所跡で同日、イスラエルが将校や兵士約２００人参加の追悼式を開催。この式典に合わせ、同軍のＦ１５戦闘機３機が、収容所上空などを飛行した。
強制収容所で虐殺された人々の大半はユダヤ人。この日のＦ１５のパイロットも、生き延びた収容者の子孫だった。（ワルシャワ共同）
［毎日新聞９月５日］ ( 2003-09-05-18:06 )
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/news/flash/kokusai/20030906k0000m030025000c.html
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3079016.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Auschwitz anger at Israeli fly-past
Israeli fighter jets have staged a fly-past at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, despite objections that the display was inappropriate.
Three F-15 aircraft - piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors - circled over the railway tracks which transported more than a million Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust.
But in a statement earlier, the museum that runs the site deplored "the demonstration of Israeli military might in this place".
"It's a cemetery, a place of silence and concentration," said museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt.
Mr Mensfelt said the museum was not consulted about the fly-past.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled said the event was being staged with the full co-operation of the Polish authorities.
'Tribute'
The Israeli pilots who staged the fly-past are in Poland as part of celebrations to mark the Polish air force's 85th anniversary.
The planes, emblazoned with Stars of David visible from the ground, flew above the camp along the railway tracks which led to the crematoria before peeling away.
Israel's ambassador to Poland, Shevach Weiss, and about 200 Israeli soldiers, also took part at a ceremony at the camp.
"It's a protest against the inhumanity of the Nazis on the Polish territory," Mr Weiss said. "It's a tribute to the ashes of those who were killed here."
The ambassador said he regretted the museum's opposition to the fly-past.
"Officers do not fight here, they cry here," he added.
Up to one-and-a-half million people were killed by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps between 1940 and 1945.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/336801.html
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IAF pilots perform fly-over at Auschwitz death camp
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies
Ignoring protests by the National Museum of
Auschwitz-Birkenau and a heavy cloud cover, three
Israel Air Force F-15 jets piloted by descendants
of Holocaust survivors circled over the former
Nazi death camp in what was designed as a tribute
to the memories of Holocaust victims.
"It's a protest against the
inhumanity of the Nazis on the
Polish territory," said
Israel's ambassador to Poland,
Shevach Weiss. "It's a tribute
to the ashes of those who were
killed here."
During the fly-over, the blue
Star of David painted on the
planes was visible on the ground, where some
200 Israel Defense Forces soldiers stood at
attention at the former Birkenau death camp,
adjacent to Auschwitz.
In a short speech given from his aircraft and
relayed to those on the ground,
Brigadier-General Amir Eshel vowed to do
everything possible to prevent anything similar
to the Holocaust recurring.
He also bade a symbolic farewell to his
grandmother who was murdered in Auschwitz.
The fly-over went ahead despite criticism by the
Polish museum located at the site and a claim
by a Polish aviation control spokeswoman that
poor weather had led to the cancelation of the
tribute.
"The National Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau
deplores the demonstration of Israeli military
might in this place," the museum said in a
statement issued Wednesday.
"It's a cemetery, a place of silence and
concentration," museum spokesman Jaroslaw
Mensfelt said by telephone.
"Flying the [F-15s] is a demonstration of
military might which is an entirely
inappropriate way to commemorate the victims."
A statement from the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw
said that the three jets - piloted by
descendants of Holocaust survivors - were to
fly over the former death camp at noon. They
were to have been accompanied by two Polish
MiG-29 jets, Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman
Sharon Feingold said.
During the fly-over, organizers planned to read
off the names of victims who arrived at
Auschwitz exactly 60 years ago, on September 4,
1943. Pages of testimony on the victims are to
be carried by the pilots in their planes,
Feingold said.
Israel's ambassador to Poland, Shevach Weiss,
insisted that the overflight was not a
demonstration of Israeli air power.
"They will fly over the camp for about a second
to honor the ashes of their fathers and
grandfathers. This will be a very emotional
moment for them. They will probably be crying
in the planes. This is not a demonstration of
military power. Our army simply wants to honor
the victims," the envoy told Reuters.
Both the IDF and Foreign Ministry defended the
fly-over plans, citing cooperation between
Israel and Poland to remember the more than one
million people who perished at
Auschwitz-Birkenau, the vast majority of them
Jews, from 1940 until its liberation on January
27, 1945. A total of six million Jews were
killed during the Holocaust.
Some 200 IDF soldiers were also to take part in
a ceremony at Birkenau, the former death camp
adjacent to Auschwitz, according to Israeli
officials.
"It's a joint Israeli-Polish initiative and for
a noble cause," Foreign Ministry spokesman
Jonathan Peled said. "We share a tragic
history, and obviously it's being done in full
cooperation."
Organizers said the idea of the overflight was
prompted purely by the coincidence of the
planes being in Poland for the air show.
Mensfelt said that the museum had not been
consulted about the fly-over. He added that the
International Auschwitz Council, an advisory
body to the museum headed by Wladyslaw
Bartoszewski, an Auschwitz survivor and former
Polish foreign minister, also "does not support
such a way to commemorate the victims."
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