The directorate of the museum at Majdanek is outraged by the art. "We are deeply shocked and outraged by the information that the painting allegedly was made with the ashes of Majdanek victims ...

The artist told the newspaper that he used ashes that he collected at Majdanek, a Nazi extermination camp in Poland, to paint a monochrome work, featuring vertical brushstrokes in a rectangle ...

A least 78,000 people, including 59,000 Jews, were killed at Majdanek during its nearly three years of existence. "Shocking evidence of the crimes committed by the Germans was found: ashes ...