Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – A Carnival float with a pile of model dead bodies commemorating the Holocaust is causing unease before the lavish parades in Rio de Janeiro this weekend.
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The Viradouro samba organization, or school, plans to feature the grim display when it marches in the Sambadrome parade strip on Sunday, despite objections from a local Jewish group.
“Really, it makes no sense addressing this theme with drums,” said Sergio Niskier, president of the Israelite Federation in Rio de Janeiro state, referring to the slaughter of Jews by Nazi Germany in World War Two.
“There are still survivors of that horror who have the marks of that tragedy on their skin,” he said.
Rio’s Carnival is famed for the parades by schools with glitzy floats and costumes and street parties.
That is just plain tasteless
DISGUSTING!!!!