The head of Germany's Jewish community on Tuesday expressed "shock" and "shame" after ultra-Orthodox protesters in Israel donned Holocaust symbols, including yellow stars, at a recent demonstration .
The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, told the Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger regional daily the protests were all the more disturbing coming from Jews.
'The pictures shocked me. And I was even ashamed that Jews of all people should do such a thing, giving a distorted image of the Holocaust,' he said.
'We Jews in Germany always say that one should never abuse the memory of the Holocaust. If now Jews are doing that, it is particularly disgraceful,' added Graumann, whose own parents were interned in concentration camps.