Holocaust survivor whose family were gassed at Auschwitz condemns Fox News ... trends now

A Holocaust survivor whose family were gassed at Auschwitz has joined the White House in condemning Fox News' prime time host's 'disgusting' remarks about Adolf Hitler's murdering concentration camps where six million Jews were killed. 

Michael Bornstein, who spent seven months in Auschwitz when he was four, said Fox News host Greg Gutfield and the network should apologize after the commentator suggested that Jews could survive in the concentration camps by 'having skills'. 

Gutfield sparked fierce backlash during a debate on Fox News' The Five about Florida's new slavery curriculum, which teaches students that slaves 'developed skills which, in some instances could be applied for personal benefit'. 

The Fox News host compared the situation to Jews and how they 'survived [concentration camps] by having skills'. 'You had to be useful. Utility! Utility kept you alive, Gutfield said, without mentioning how millions of Jews died in the concentration camps as soon as they got off the trains. 

Bornstein, 86, whose father and brother were gassed at Auschwitz, told CNN: 'The Fox News host should apologize, the Fox News network should apologize. There's absolutely no room for fake news like that.

'I'm disgusted basically. My father was an accountant. And he had, basically, negotiating skills. He and my brother were gassed in Auschwitz. 

'My mother knew how to pack - learned how to pack - bullets. Bullets that killed Jewish people. There were over six million people killed in the Holocaust, over a million people killed in Auschwitz. 

'And there is no silver lining to killing six million people, or talking about slaves, and the benefits of slaves and learning in what they were doing.' 

Bornstein's daughter, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, also told CNN that they were used to seeing conspiracy theories peddled online, but it was shocking to see a host of a major network parroting 'the same kind of garbage that minimizes the murder of six million people'.

'That is what is really shocking and really, really dangerous and upsetting,' Debbie added. 

Gutfield's comments also sparked backlash from the White House, the Auschwitz Memorial and prominent Jewish organisations.

'Being skilled or useful did not spare [Jewish people] from the horrors of the gas chambers,' the Auschwitz Memorial said, while the White House slammed it as a 'horrid, dangerous and extreme lie that insults the memory' of millions who died during the Holocaust. 

Gutfield had spoken about the Holocaust during 'The Five' during a discussion about Florida's new Black history curriculum, which teaches students that slaves 'developed skills' that could be used for 'personal benefit'. 

Jessica Tarlov, a liberal-leaning co-host, had said she was uncomfortable with the new history standards and questioned whether arguments to defend them would be made in regard to the Holocaust.

'I'm not Black, but I'm Jewish,' Tarlov said on Monday. 'Would someone say about the Holocaust, for instance, that there were some benefits for Jews? That while they were hanging out in concentration camps, they learned a strong work ethic? That maybe you learned a new skill.'