“I’d rather be in Auschwitz than New York City,” he joked. “I mean now, not when it was open.”
The audience burst into applause for the 52-year-old comic, whose paternal grandfather was Jewish. The Nazis exterminated more than a million people in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland before it was liberated in January 1945 by the Soviet Union. It has operated as a museum since 1947.
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