The museum of Auschwitz is fed up with disrespectful photos of its visitors

March 25, 2019

The authorities published a message before the broadcast of some tourist images. In 1979, the museum was declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

In recent days, the authorities of the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkena They filled their patience and sent a strong message to the lack of respect from some of their visitors.

The answer came after many of the tourists on the scene took pictures "in balance" on the tracks of the train that transported the deportees to the concentration camps.

"When you arrive at @AuschwitzMuseum, remember that you are on the site where more than a million people have died.Maintain your memory.There are better places to learn to walk on a beam than the site which symbolizes the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people until death. " They wrote on the museum's official Twitter account.

In addition, citing a video of a media that focused on the news, they said: "It's simple: be respectful" (It's simple: be respectful).

The museum "Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau"It is a monument that shows the war crimes committed by the Germans in Poland.It brings together the concentration camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

It was founded in 1947, by decision of the Polish Parliament, with a total area of ​​191 hectares, also used by researchers to conduct work on the Holocaust.

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Since 1979, the Auschwitz Museum is a cultural heritage of humanity, as decreed by Unesco. It is estimated that since then, more than 25 million people have visited it.

"Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world visit us, but unfortunately we see how some of them are enjoying their journey through the former concentration camp to take pictures in an attitude frivolous, regardless of the fact that they are in a human tragedy, "explained the authorities during a dialogue with Efe.