Tourists turned Auschwitz’s death tracks into a photo set
Tourists staged a photo shoot on the railway tracks leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau, where deportation trains carried thousands of people to their deaths.
Video shows a woman posing on the tracks, adjusting her hair and changing postures while two companions photograph her.
Auschwitz is considered Nazi Germany’s most notorious concentration and extermination camp, where over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives. It is now considered one of the most important Holocaust memorial sites. The train tracks outside Auschwitz were the place where thousands of people arrived by deportation trains during the Holocaust. The railway tracks were the final route taken by many victims of Nazi Germany’s mass murder.
In the footage, which has amassed 2.5 million views, a young woman is seen sitting on the tracks in front of Auschwitz’s main gate. She adjusts her hair and changes position while two other people take photographs of her. The video, which was shared by TikTok user Alojzy Nowak, is overlaid with the theme song from the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm seemingly to show how awkward the photo shoot at the Holocaust memorial site was.
The Auschwitz Museum has repeatedly asked visitors to remember where they are.
In the attention economy we live in, anything that drives “engagement” is seen as ok by the content creators.
Obviously not Jewish. NEVER FORGET!