Robert F Kennedy Jr ‘exploited tragedy’ of Nazism in anti-vax speech, says Auschwitz memorial

Institution criticized Kennedy for likening US government efforts to contain Covid-19 with vaccine mandates to the Holocaust

The official memorial of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp in which more than 1 million people were murdered, has accused the prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr of moral and intellectual decay", after he compared vaccine mandates to laws in Hitler's Germany and invoked the name of Anne Frank.

The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum responded swiftly to remarks made at an anti-vaccine mandate rally in Washington DC on Sunday.