A Russian entrepreneur has hired the site of a Holocaust massacre to build a holiday resort, reports The Guardian.

The massacre was one of the last acts of slaughter of the Holocaust, with 7,000 Jewish prisoners taken from the Stutthof concentration camp and sent on a ‘death march’ before being lined up on the shores of the Baltic Sea and shot in the back by a group of Hitler Youth and SS assassins on 30 January, 1945.

Only 13 people are known to have survived the massacre, which lasted all night and took place on top of Yantarni’s coastal cliffs. When the bodies were washed ashore during the summer of 1945, they were buried where they were found, making the coast a burial ground. To mark the massacre, a remembrance ceremony is held every year on 31 January at Yantarni.

However, in December 2003, the head of the local administration, Igor Kazakov, signed an agreement to permit a local firm to build a holiday camp on the site.

The decision was condemned as both ‘unpredecented’ and ‘absurd’ by Jewish organisations while local campaigners are currently intending to get a formal reversal on the decision as soon as possible.