Captions alleged that "like the Jews murdered in concentration camps, animals are terrorized when they are housed in huge filthy warehouses and rounded up for shipment to slaughter.
The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the death camps.
"[2] Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said the exhibition was "outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights ... [T]he effort by PETA to compare the deliberate systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent.
"[1] The ADL denounced the campaign[3] The ADL urged animal rights groups to avoid Holocaust comparisons, saying that "the issue should stand on its own merits, rather than rely on inappropriate comparisons that only serve to trivialize the suffering of the six million Jews and other groups who died at the hands of the Nazis".
A television public service announcement titled "They Came for Us at Night", which aired on U.S. cable networks and in Warsaw, Poland in July 2003, "showed the outside world through the slats of a boxcar and is narrated by a man (with an accent) who describes the plight of being transported with no food and water", according to the ADL, and drew an analogy between the plight of pigs and cows being transported to their deaths in cattle cars with Jews and other Nazi persecuted groups in the same situation during the Holocaust.