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The Auschwitz Museum cautions visitors following visitor's tweet with inappropriate photo going viral

Added 2023-04-28

Description

Representatives of The Auschwitz Museum, at the former site of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp where 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered, had to advise visitors, via a reply to a Twitter post, to be more respectful after that Twitter post including inappropriate content had gone viral with over 10 million views. The post includes a complaint by Maria Murphy, a conservative news producer from the UK visiting the site who captured a photo of a visitor posing for a photograph for her friend. The woman in the photo appeared to sit casually on the railway tracks of death, with the camp entrance as a background, and enjoy the sunshine. The news producers comment reads "Today I had one of the most harrowing experiences of my life. Regrettably it didn’t seem everyone there found it quite so poignant." The producer later appeared on GB News show criticising the narcissism and indifference of many visitors, a thing she said she had also observed on other sites commemorating human tragedies. The comments section below the tweet attracted neonazi scum who post hateful and denialist comments, which seem to be tolerated by Twitter's new management. 

Location

Poland
Auschwitz