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UN Rapporteur Apologizes After Misreading Nazi “Muselmann” Term

By Drooid · Sep 28, 2026, 8:05 PM UTC · How we work

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Italian UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said Jews were called “the Muslims” in Nazi camps.
She later apologized on X/Twitter, saying she misread Muselmann’s meaning.
Holocaust experts and Auschwitz-Birkinau Memorial say Muselmann described starving prisoners of any faith, not a Jewish label.
Yad Vashem called Albanese’s use of Muselmann historically inaccurate and not specific to Jews.

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Italian UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said Jews were called “the Muslims” in Nazi camps.
She later apologized on X/Twitter, saying she misread Muselmann’s meaning.
Holocaust experts and Auschwitz-Birkinau Memorial say Muselmann described starving prisoners of any faith, not a Jewish label.
Yad Vashem called Albanese’s use of Muselmann historically inaccurate and not specific to Jews.