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Katy Perry Visits Auschwitz

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Anne Cohen

By Anne Cohen February 26, 2015

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Katy Perry took a break from the European leg of her “Prismatic World Tour” to visit Auschwitz on Wednesday. The pop star posted shared a picture of the concentration camp with her 15 million Instagram followers with the following caption:

“My heart was heavy today.
For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity, where the Nazi murdered about one and a half million men, women and children mainly Jews from various countries of Europe.
Auschwitz – Birkenau
1940-1945
‘>The one that does not remember history is bound to live through it again’ — George Santayana”

No selfies were involved, and for this we are thankful.

Instagram/Katy Perry

[h/t Tablet]

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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