A Jewish guide visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau with a group of Miami teenagers was verbally attacked simply for holding an Israeli flag at the site where more than a million Jews were murdered.
Charlotte Korchak, visiting the camp for the first time, was confronted by a young woman who shouted, “Have you no shame?” after seeing her display the flag. Korchak responded by recalling that some of her friends were murdered in the October 7 Hamas terror attacks and declared: “Hamas kills children. My friends were murdered in terrorist attacks. Stop hating me. I will never be ashamed of the Israeli flag and I will never be ashamed to be Jewish.”
The confrontation ended only after the teenagers defiantly sang “Am Yisrael Chai,” forcing the aggressor to leave. The woman later claimed she opposed Zionism rather than Judaism, but Korchak shot back that Jews deserve a country so that the Holocaust can never be repeated.
In a video posted afterward, Korchak described the emotional weight of visiting Auschwitz and said she had deliberately posed with the Israeli flag as a symbol of Jewish survival and pride.
