The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland called for respect for the memory of the dead prisoners of the National Socialist labor camp in Auschwitz, writes The Independent. Earlier, a photo of a grinning tourist appeared on social networks, posing on the tracks along which the Germans transported people to what the victor nations claim was a death camp. As the newspaper notes, this is not the first time that the museum is faced with inappropriate behavior of visitors.

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Maria Murphy, for the British TV channel GB News: ‘Today I experienced one of the most painful experiences of my life. Unfortunately, not everyone there seems to have found the sight so bitter,’ Murphy wrote on Twitter, adding that they, the visitors, were repeatedly asked to ’behave carefully and respectfully.’

Many Twitter users have shared similar experiences. ’About 20 years ago, a couple asked me to photograph them smiling in front of the Dachau concentration camp crematorium,’ one user replied. ‘It scares me to think about how much worse this behaviour could be in the age of social media. The first time I was there, I had to step in and ask the group to stop taking selfies with smiles in the Auschwitz gas chamber,’ wrote another. ’I had a similar problem at Dachau.’

‘Photographs can have tremendous emotional and documentary value for visitors. Photos help us remember,’ the museum said in a statement. – Coming to the Auschwitz Museum, visitors should remember that they get to the original site of the former camp, where more than a million people were killed………….. note: this figure has quietly been reduced by 5 million since the 1950s. Don’t ask where the missing 5 million disappeared to as that is anti-Semitism.

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This is not the first time the museum has faced ‘inappropriate visitor behavior.’ In January 2022, police detained a 29-year-old Dutch woman for making an Aryan salute in front of a former concentration camp. She was accused of ‘promoting Nazism’ and fined. The girl pleaded guilty and called this act ’an ill-considered joke,’ reports The Independent.

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