Former Principal Sues Over Gas Chamber Exhibit
A black Jewish woman is suing the Phoenix school where she formerly served as principal for failing to respond to complaints about a fake gas chamber set up outside her office and then firing her.
Millicent McNeil, who was fired from the Mission Charter School last May 13, filed a $2 million lawsuit in Maricopa County Court claiming that she was underpaid because of her race and religion and that the school ignored her complaints about the gas chamber, which was part of a Holocaust exhibit, Courthouse News reported.
She alleges that teachers at the K-8 school, saying they were setting up a Holocaust exhibit, made her hallway and office door into an entrance to a faux gas chamber. McNeil says they painted a swastika on the wall outside her door, painted her door black and placed a photo next to the door of a lever that would activate a gas chamber.
McNeil also claims that the teachers wrote “Majdanek Bad Und Desinfektion,” or “Majdanek Bath And Disinfection,” above the door – imitating the sign for gas chambers at the Majdanek concentration camp – and the German word for “women” directly over the door.
Contacted by JTA, a school official had no comment on the case.
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