A photo of a tourist in a seductive pose against the background of railway tracks leading to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz caused outrage on social networks. A frivolous girl was sentenced for disrespecting the victims of the Holocaust, i24news writes.
The uproarious picture was taken by Maria Murphy, a producer for GB News in Great Britain, who visited the Auschwitz memorial. The photo shows a man sitting on the train tracks to take a photo of a smiling woman in a vulgar pose on the tracks. Both tourists have not been identified.
“Today was one of the most shocking moments in my life. Unfortunately, it seems that not everyone had the same feelings,” Maria Murphy wrote in the caption of the photo she published on one of the social networks.
The publication caused outrage among Internet users. Some pointed out that the photo was taken the day before Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Anyone who wants to take a frivolous photo at Auschwitz should definitely watch the testimonies of Holocaust survivors sitting with their children and grandchildren. As we flip through the photo albums of our murdered family members,” wrote Neely Kaplan, a Jewish doctor from Ottawa who lost several family members in the Holocaust.
The official account of the Auschwitz Memorial responded to Maria Murphy’s post, reminding visitors not to take such photos: “Photos can have enormous emotional and documentary value for visitors. Photos help us remember. When visiting the Auschwitz museum, visitors should remember that they are entering the authentic territory of the former camp, where more than a million people were killed. Please respect their memory.”
This is not the first time that the Auschwitz museum has appealed to tourists to behave appropriately on the territory of the museum after inappropriate photos. In 2019, the museum mentioned that there are “better places to study balance than a place that symbolizes the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people to their deaths”.
Auschwitz, or Auschwitz-Birkenau, was the largest concentration and death camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II. 1.1 million people were killed there between 1940 and 1945, 90% of whom were Jews.