MOSCOW -- An Olympic ice-dancing gold medalist and her dancing partner have caused controversy by dressing up in concentration camp uniforms for a routine on a popular television show.Tatiana Navka, who is the wife of Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, and partner Andrei Burkovsky appeared in Saturdays episode of Ice Age dressed in striped uniforms bearing yellow six-pointed stars and heavily made-up to look bruised and frail.Their routine, which aired on state-owned Channel One, was based on Life is Beautiful, the Academy Award-winning Italian movie about a Jewish father who pretends for the sake of his small son that their internment in a Nazi camp is just a game.Navkas Instagram account soon was flooded with indignant comments.Navka, 41, who won gold in ice dancing for Russia at the 2006 Turin Olympics, and Burkovsky, a 33-year-old theater actor, told Russian media on Sunday that it was their way of paying homage to Holocaust victims.Their dance sparked outrage in Israel.Motifs from the Holocaust are not for parties, not for dance and not for reality (TV), Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev told Israeli Army Radio on Sunday.Not one of the 6 million danced and a concentration camp is not a summer camp, Regev added, referring to the number of Jewish dead.Other people in Israel were not as categorical.You have to keep in mind that this is being done on Russian television, said Efraim Zuroff, director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center who described the performance as quite kitschy but added that in the Soviet Union media and officials did not dwell on the Holocaust so any discussion of it Russia should be welcomed.So, in that respect, this performance was actually a refreshing change and a different way of looking at the Holocaust. Thats why it had some value.Peskov told reporters on Monday that his wifes dance routine is not something for the Kremlin to comment on, but said: Im proud of my wife. This is all I can say.While some Russians were indignant at what some saw as mockery of the memory of the dead, others posted messages of support on Navkas Instagram account, saying that the dance brought tears to their eyes.The routine was choreographed by 2002 Olympic silver medalist Ilya Averbukh, who is Jewish.Averbukh, who said in a 2012 interview that he had problems in his childhood because of his Jewish name, stood by the Holocaust-themed dance.This routine is my idea, Averbukh, who is also Ice Ages chief producer, told Komsomolskaya Pravda on Sunday. I have done a lot of routines on the war and Jewish themes.Senior Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have honored Holocaust victims and have spoken out against attempts to justify the crimes of Nazis or their allies.Holocaust-themed routines arent new to sports.In 1996, Frances synchronized swimming team had to scrap its program, which depicted the arrival of Jewish women in death camps and their final march to the gas chambers, following an intervention by the French sports minister. The routine was also based on a movie and set to music from Steven Spielbergs Schindlers List.---Daniel Estrin in Jerusalem contributed to this report. Walter Brown Jersey . Booth picked up 65 caps after making her national team debut in 2002 at the age of 17. She most recently played for Sky Blue FC of the National Womens Soccer League. "It just felt like it was my time to move on," she said in a phone interview from her hometown of Burlington, Ont. Walter Brown Celtics Jersey . 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