The Auschwitz Museum interviewed selfies and asked visitors not to take photos "in a frivolous attitude"

"When you come to the Auschwitz Museum, remember that it is on the site where more than a million people have died," asks the requested memorial to the concentration camp and the The extermination that founded Nazism on the territory occupied by the Third Reich in Poland. Through their Twitter account, the authorities of the institution expressed their dissatisfaction and They asked visitors not to take pictures "in a frivolous attitude" in a place where the most macabre annihilation plan of contemporary history has been developed.

It speaks, without saying so, of historical sensitivity, of conscience and decency for the caliber of the facts and the memory of the victims of Nazism, whether they are Jews, non-Jewish Poles, homobaduals, Jehovah's Witnesses, prisoners of Soviet war or gypsies. . "Respect your memory", exclaims almost as a plea of ​​the museum message that has aired through social networks.The publication is accompanied by four photos that serve as testimony:"There are better places to learn how to balance that site that symbolizes the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people to his death."

The museum chose these images as an example and to make themselves understood. Photographs of visitors walking along the rails of the train that led the deportees to the concentration camp as if they were trying not to fall off the beam are what the authorities describe as frivolous pose. "Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world visit us, and we sadly see how part of them are enjoying their journey through the old concentration camp to take pictures in a frivolous attitude, without taking into account that they are in a place where a human tragedy has occurred", they argued from the museum to the agency EFE.

The tweet is March 20 and in a few days, it already has more than 40,000 messages. retweets and 86 thousand love. There are also many users' reactions and criticism to the supposed "regulation" spirit and exaggerated solemnity. The museum's response to badessments of your request is based on respect. "Auschwitz is a place where you have to come to remember a tragic episode of history, to reflect and to learn what to avoid so that such things do not happen again, it is not a place of frivolization."he has answered.

It does not forbid taking pictures and specifies it in several exchanges of tweets. "We do not oppose the taking of photographs, they have a documentary and emotional value, we ask people to be respectful during their visits to the site and also when taking photos," he said. -he declares. "Photography will not be prohibited he repeated. It's about educating people on how to behave in historic places and telling them that they should also respect their memory when they take pictures. "

This is not the first time the museum authorities show their dissatisfaction with the concept of visitor photos. In April 2015, he questioned the publication of a selfie: "Selfie in a room filled with victim's shoes? Sad and quite disrespectful"The tweet included the picture in question of a couple who had uploaded it to their Instagram account." It can be a commemoration tool, but it's easy to cross the line, "he meditated.

Shahak Shapira, an Israeli artist based in Germany, directed in 2017 a photographic project that he christened "Yolocaust", an ironic play on words between the Holocaust and the acronym "YOLO", which means "we live only once", used by young people to justify irreverent actions. His proposal was to ridicule visitors who were taking pictures in the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin through a montage: he cut off his happy and eccentric characters and placed them in time and l & # 39; space, in the concentration camp during the Second World War.