Nazi legacy leaves star downcast

Singer Katy Perry arrives at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California on February 8, 2015. Picture: Mario Anzuoni

Singer Katy Perry arrives at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California on February 8, 2015. Picture: Mario Anzuoni

Published Mar 2, 2015

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Katy Perry was left with a “heavy” heart after visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

The singer took the time after her show in Krakow, Poland to visit the site of notorious concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, where over a million people were killed during the Holocaust, and the trip had an emotional effect on her.

Alongside a picture she took from the grounds, Katy wrote: “My heart was heavy today.”

She then added the text from the site’s memorial plaque, which reads: “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.”

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