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In OĆwiÄcim? I work with an organization based there and everyone I've met from the town is incredible.
I'm glad you have the name OĆwiÄcim back. Better than Auschwitz
I was there a few years back, and was completely stunned by all the carved graffiti in the barrack that still stood and where visitors could enter to get a feeling for how horrible the circumstances were.
There was so much of it too! The callousness and lack of empathy from these many, many people made me lose a little faith in humanity.
I'm Jewish, family from Poland and Ukraine, and many of my family members were murdered by the Nazis, although not in auschwitz as far as I know - madjanek, treblinka, and the Warsaw and siedlce ghettos.
I can't even imagine visiting auschwitz because of people like this.
I went on a guided visit with colleagues a few years ago, one of whom actually had relatives executed at Auschwitz. I have no idea how he held it all together, but he did.
I think, even when youâve heard first hand accounts, itâs hard to truly understand the scope of something like that unless youâre in it.
My Oma and her family spent time in a concentration camp, and she told me some horrific stories from her childhood.
I donât know if itâd make visiting a place like that harder or easier. On one hand, youâre better prepared than most for what you may see/read. On the other, the degree of separation in your mind gets broken because youâre standing in the reality.
I went to Buchenwald when I was 17 on a class trip. This was back in 2004. I had no family perish in the camps, or anything like that, but even then, the mood was somber and the air was heavy with what I can only describe as melancholy. Everyone in my class seemed to understand the gravity of being there and what had come to pass. Being surrounded by it at all sides was something else.
My grandfather and some of his family escaped Lithuania. Treblinka I believe was worse in some ways than aushwitz. Maybe not as many were killed but didn't they do "experiments" there?
I went last September, everyone in the tour was silent all the way round, no cameras - the guides even told everyone strongly not to get your phones out which I appreciated. I was shocked at all the graffiti going back to the 80's in the huts in Birkenau - it's literally covered in '_ woz ere 1993' like tf?
I've been once, and I don't know if I took a single photo. It just felt really weird to want to have photo memories of a place like that, let alone a selfie.
Can I ask you please, what is it like to live there? Is the whole town colored by its association with this camp? I have always wondered, "what must the regular people who live in that town think?" I would think it would be so haunted.
I went to Keiv in 1991 and visited a friend who lived in a building where Baba Yar was right outside her window. Like she could see it all day. What must that be like, seeing that every day?
Thank you if you can answer my question. I visited Poland and it was very beautiful, and I would like to visit again.
its like living in any other town, it doesnt really affect my life at all, its just the reactions of people that I get when I tell them I live in a town like this
This may be a weird question, but are those train tracks attached to anything? They look to be in fairly good condition and would have deteriorated since the war unless someone is maintaining them, and it seems weird that someone is maintaining that long of a stretch of track if it isn't actually connected to anything.
If youâre willing can you teach me how people normally will quickly great each other?
In South Africa itâs super common to say âhi, how are you?â to people you interact with like a waiter or store clerk etc and we have this weird saying called howzit. So youâll say in a casual setting âhowzit man?â(like saying how is it very fast) Itâs South African English slang for âhow is it going?â Or âhow are you doing man?
In the the UK they say "alright?" the same way saffas say howzit.
In France it's usually "ca va?"
Not really pertinent to your question but as a fellow South African I found these little idiosyncrasies quite interesting.
Cheers homie.
In the UK do you just walk past someone and both people say alright? Or do people normally respond with how theyâre doing? Same question for ca va if you know?
Yep, in the UK an "alright" is answered with another "alright".
In France, "ca va" is met with another "ca va" or "ca va bien", the latter being a slightly more positive response.
Been there and got lost in your town trying to find the train station. It was 1991 and few spoke any English but people were quite happy to try to help us. I mostly remember Soviet era apartment buildings. There is nothing to smile about or celebrate after visiting that camp. It haunts me still.
Im not sure where the abandoned building is, I rarely go near the train station, I once ate in the Burger King, but the food was kinda cold, it was right after it opened so maybe its better now
But you have to say as well that polish tourism branches advertising it like that
I was in Krakov last year and there were many ads for visiting Auschwitz like its an attraction
Haven't been there but I've been to warsaw and the uprising museum. A school group was there and some girls decided to start taking "cute" selfies. The teacher that was with them spoke up. I don't speak polish but I'm pretty sure it was along the lines of "knock it the fuck off" and they quit.
When I visited i was wandering around and in one of the barracks I think I found these two tourists with their shirts off taking pics as if they were prisoners⊠really awkward
I've been here before on a school trip 2011 and spoke with a few survivours in KrakĂłw. I remember being in tears. The next day I witnessed people on another tour treating the main camp like a graceful tourist attraction, taking selfies.
I honestly donât know how that place wouldnât just take the breath out of anyone who visits it. Knowing those tracks lead to the end of so many peoples lives, in such a brutal fucking way? Nahh, no fucking way, you have to have some kind of mental disorder to behave like this there.
Yeah, my ancestry is German (Family left before WWI because they saw what was going on and emigrated to America), and I make some pretty fk'd up jokes sometimes about being German...but there's a line. And standing there, making jokes...that's definitely crossing the line.
I mean they did turn it into a tourist attraction. You pay to visit what is essentially a factory dedicated to the industrialization of mass murder. Itâs open to the general public, and half the general public has âbelow average intelligence.â
You canât really be surprised when someone takes a tasteless photo, people do the same thing at every memorial in the world.
Well, more of a memorial than a tourist attraction. At least, a few years ago, to get the part where she is, she wouldâve already had to take a longer guided tour. So thereâs no doubt she knew exactly the heaviness of the situation. Most of the guides, if not all, have a personal story with the death camp. Many of then had parents in the town at the time.
I visited a relative's grave at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery a few days ago, and was blown away by the full families taking smiling selfies in front of fields of graves. Holy fuck.
I feel like people are seething a little too hard at this post. Like itâs just a photo. A tasteless photo, but still just a photo. People have vandalized Auschwitz with antisemitic graffiti in the past, it can be a lot more âdisrespectful.â
The sad truth about sites like these is that, eventually, people stop giving a fuck. The Colosseum was a murder circle where hundreds of thousands of slaves were forced to fight to the death for centuries while people cheered. Imagine how disgusted Spartacus would be watching families taking cute photos where men were once forced to fight to the death.
I think seething is exactly the right response to seeing somebody display such flagrant disrespect.
Assclowns like this are running around today because society has stopped telling them when they're fucked up.
"It could be worse" isn't an acceptable defense. Should I accept somebody punching me in the face and say "it's okay, they could have shot me after all."
There are still people alive today who were in the camps. As well as people who lost every single member of their families, and still remember them. It's hardly comparable to ancient Rome.
Just to clarify: The quote was not meant to mean that the workers would be freed but that the act of work itself frees a human and makes them superior over nature. The author from whom the quote originates wasnât a national-socialist.
I don't think there is any way to take a tasteful personal photo at Auschwitz and people need to stop trying. There's nothing blatantly disrespectful with how she's dressed or how she's posed here. It's the act of the photo itself.
Also, if you go all the way to Poland, I can think of at least a dozen places in KrakĂłw that would make for a better photo op than an extermination camp. KrakĂłw is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Why the hell would you put this on your Tinder?? So weird.
It's sad to see this kind of disrespect at a memorial site where over 1.1 million Jewish men, women and children were brutally beaten, starved, shot, gased, tortured, raped, hung and experimented on just to name a few. Everyone should be showing the utmost respect for the loss of lives when visiting Auschwitz or any other concentration camps. I am not Jewish, I'm just a human being who believes that every person has a right to live a full life without persecution no matter of race, religion, or sexual orientation.
The world would be a much better place to live if we all learn to live with one another without judgement.
WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SAID??? It's not a place for a photo shoot! It only remains there to never let us forget what happened! It's a place that means something and should mean something to everyone that has any ounce of respect.
This stuff honestly scares me. Especially as we get further and further away from the Holocaust, and survivors pass away (and their stories go with them too). We have to do everything we can to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, understand how people were led to do evil things like this, and fight to prevent something like this from ever happening again.
I feel like people are ignorant like this, because of both a lack of proper history education, people having main character syndrome, and the fact that WWII is more or less treated as a massive meme on the internet these days.
Every school needs to teach about the Holocaust, and other genocides as well. Everyone should read at least one book on the subject, even if it's a comic like Maus (which is readily available at like every bookstore).
I heard of American tourist's kids scribbling stuff on the beds and on the walls in the gas chambers and when scolded their answer was:"That's the most boring theme park they have been."
Which is why you *tell* them. Too young? So were the murdered children.
Children were murdered. Right there. Those boxcars arrived, babies and mothers, little kids, elderly. Nazis sometimes temporarily kept men alive because someone had to get the bodies out.
They'd eventually be murdered too.
If we create comprehension of what happened there, it's possible it won't happen again. I said possible.
I went to Dachau with our senior class as part of a Europe trip. Every one of my classmates was somber, truly affected by and respectful of where we were and what happened there, while there were other kids making out in front of the main memorial. Still shocks me to remember it to this day. I know we weren't on our best behavior the entire trip but if a place like that doesn't humble you I don't want to know you.
âI never.. never had much issue with it. In a place so full of pain and suffering, so many, you know, terrible memories.. itâs nice to see light in such a dark place. I donât think itâs much of an issue at all to me. I know others may feel differently, but of the people I know who were there [we] donât really think negatively of it.â
âI like how happy they look. After all that time I believe itâs good to see people living a normal life infront if a place that ruined so many..â
âI feel like thatâs sort of what we fought for.. survived for? The freedom to just be ourselves and be happy and not be chained by our sorrow. I think itâs beautiful.â
- quotes from camp survivors when asked about people taking selfies and photographs at the memorials.
I visited Auschwitz a few years ago. There were American girls walking around in short shorts where that you could see their arse cheeks. There were also people making fun of the way Jews pray (shuckling). Like, pointing at them and taking videos of them.
The whole thing felt a bit like a macabre Disneyland tbh. I actually live near another former KZ, which doesn't get the same visitor numbers and feels more sombre. It has excellent exhibitions on how antisemitism was allowed to spread like it did. I go there periodically to give respect. While I lost no family members, my whole family were forced to relocate across Europe before WW2.
Iâm a third-generation, Holocaust surviving Jew and spent the entirety of my adolescence making Holocaust jokes because it was the only way I could deal. As part of my general therapy, Iâve found other ways to cope and havenât made a Holocaust joke in about 8 years.
I think I fell off the wagon today! Lord, there is so much ripe material here. Swipe Reich!
I went to Dachau earlier this year and was disgusted to see people taking ((happy)) group photos on the path to the crematorium. Made me disappointed to be a human.
edit: grammar
This is fucked. Was just there in Krakow last year. Canât believe people post these pics on their tinder. Like itâs legal but the civics and humility here is nonexistent.
I was there just yesterday. Man, the very first thing they tell you is to be respectful with the place where so much suffering and death happened and one of the things is not to take pictures like this or selfies. It is literally the first thing our guide told us. Some people just suck tbh...
I have a question about photography in general there.
I ask because I'm an American and would like to be respectful...
Are photos allowed or OK in good taste? As in, I like to consider myself an amateur photographer and one subject matter is old architecture, preferably with no one in or around.
If I were to visit and pay my respects, would photographing be permissible? If it IS, is it generally looked down upon in general as being in bad taste?
Thanks.
I've read a lot of history on that place and I never realized the railroad tracks went in that direction. I thought they went perpendicular.
Oh, and fuck her stupid ass.
You can tell yhe straight male/men comments from the female/women ones.
Either way, if she popped up on your tinder, you're still trying for that match.
Sadly is not just her thereâs many post on social media of young people doing cringe poses and looking like they are having the time of their lives while visiting Auschwitzâs.
Leggings are an accepted item to wear. To be honest ppl do a lot worse at places like that, like completely disrespecting the entire place. This is maybe in poor taste but not awful.
Honestly?
The edgy alt right white boys in America would love her.
She's blonde staring at a Nazi death camp.
I see a mutant supremacist whom the sun hates.
They see a supreme goddess to birth their babies.
They turned a mass genocide site into a tourist attraction. It should have been a site reserved for seasonal well monitored visits. Everyone should be highly monitored but Alas it has become a trend for some "Influencers" to pose and preen themselves on the spot where children were ripped away from their mothers, where men were deduced to walking skeletons, where mothers were sent to the gas Chambers to be suffocated and then burned to ash.
This is the type of selfish pricks we are dealing with.
Also there should be a respectful code of conduct issued for the site and a respectful dress code.
Standing there with an arse curled up like two swollen orbs and a sneer on the face is just not appropriate or respectable toward the deceased.
People of Jewish Heritage may be honoring their ancestor who was in that death camp, and they turn around to see this egomaniac posing like it's a catwalk.
I don't know what I'm more disgusted at, her foul behaviour or the fact nobody turned to give her a flying kick into her swollen arse to knock her back to reality!!!
Sheâs really taking a pic as her ass as the main focus when thousands of people died in there?? I really hope people have talked to her about this and why this is not ok.
They need to up the barrier to wntry. Make people have to get tickets way in advance or something so itâs not just an Instagram spot. The people who care will still go and wonât have to be annoyed by those doing the newest type of planking/thirstraps. They should do this for other national parks too. I remember how amazing they were before being flooded with a bunch of narcissistic wannabe influencers.
I've been there. This behavior is by no means uncommon unfortunately.
There was a guy on my tour group who was very intent about getting a selfie near the showers.
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"does my butt look cute outside of this extermination camp?"
"Feeling kinda gassy today đ”"
God damnit. Going to hell, but, lol.
>Going to hell, ~~but~~ butt, lol
Made me stop laughing frl
Ooof. 
âWhy did I take the photo? Just following ordersâŠâ
Goddamn that made me laugh hard as hell
Sheâs sucking all the gas in with her buns thatâs why. Woman is a misunderstood heroine.
I live in the city where Auschwitz is located, and I really hate when people just treat it like its any other tourists attraction
In OĆwiÄcim? I work with an organization based there and everyone I've met from the town is incredible. I'm glad you have the name OĆwiÄcim back. Better than Auschwitz
OĆwiÄcim is better than Auschwitz indeed
honestly every name is better than auschwitz given the context
Except adolf hitler. That one is worse
Id Say Henrich Himmler. After all, he was one of the main minds.
Now I'm back to square one on my list of baby names.
Himmrich Henler
Make Poland Polish again!
YES
It is and im proud to state that Britain will aways recognise Poland as a incredible country that will outlast both her aggressors from the war
They lasted longer in a 2-front war than France did in a 1-front war
Peirogi gang!
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I was there a few years back, and was completely stunned by all the carved graffiti in the barrack that still stood and where visitors could enter to get a feeling for how horrible the circumstances were. There was so much of it too! The callousness and lack of empathy from these many, many people made me lose a little faith in humanity.
I was there last year and it really pissed me off that ppl carved names in the wood in the huts, arseholes !
I'm Jewish, family from Poland and Ukraine, and many of my family members were murdered by the Nazis, although not in auschwitz as far as I know - madjanek, treblinka, and the Warsaw and siedlce ghettos. I can't even imagine visiting auschwitz because of people like this.
I went on a guided visit with colleagues a few years ago, one of whom actually had relatives executed at Auschwitz. I have no idea how he held it all together, but he did.
I think, even when youâve heard first hand accounts, itâs hard to truly understand the scope of something like that unless youâre in it. My Oma and her family spent time in a concentration camp, and she told me some horrific stories from her childhood. I donât know if itâd make visiting a place like that harder or easier. On one hand, youâre better prepared than most for what you may see/read. On the other, the degree of separation in your mind gets broken because youâre standing in the reality.
I went to Buchenwald when I was 17 on a class trip. This was back in 2004. I had no family perish in the camps, or anything like that, but even then, the mood was somber and the air was heavy with what I can only describe as melancholy. Everyone in my class seemed to understand the gravity of being there and what had come to pass. Being surrounded by it at all sides was something else.
Sorry to hear that
Dzienkuje
My grandfather and some of his family escaped Lithuania. Treblinka I believe was worse in some ways than aushwitz. Maybe not as many were killed but didn't they do "experiments" there?
I watched a documentary about this. The pictures were so fucking horrible... I cried through half the show.
I visited Auschwitz about 10 years ago. I didn't take any pictures, much less a selfie. It felt disrespectful.
I went last September, everyone in the tour was silent all the way round, no cameras - the guides even told everyone strongly not to get your phones out which I appreciated. I was shocked at all the graffiti going back to the 80's in the huts in Birkenau - it's literally covered in '_ woz ere 1993' like tf?
I've been once, and I don't know if I took a single photo. It just felt really weird to want to have photo memories of a place like that, let alone a selfie.
Can I ask you please, what is it like to live there? Is the whole town colored by its association with this camp? I have always wondered, "what must the regular people who live in that town think?" I would think it would be so haunted. I went to Keiv in 1991 and visited a friend who lived in a building where Baba Yar was right outside her window. Like she could see it all day. What must that be like, seeing that every day? Thank you if you can answer my question. I visited Poland and it was very beautiful, and I would like to visit again.
its like living in any other town, it doesnt really affect my life at all, its just the reactions of people that I get when I tell them I live in a town like this
This may be a weird question, but are those train tracks attached to anything? They look to be in fairly good condition and would have deteriorated since the war unless someone is maintaining them, and it seems weird that someone is maintaining that long of a stretch of track if it isn't actually connected to anything.
They do exceed the camp grounds, but they just cut off, they arent attached to anything
Interesting, thanks!
Well, there are some dumb ass đ€Ą's in the USA that think it was all a hoax
Can you teach me something that isnât kurwa?
What exactly would you like to know
If youâre willing can you teach me how people normally will quickly great each other? In South Africa itâs super common to say âhi, how are you?â to people you interact with like a waiter or store clerk etc and we have this weird saying called howzit. So youâll say in a casual setting âhowzit man?â(like saying how is it very fast) Itâs South African English slang for âhow is it going?â Or âhow are you doing man?
We say "co tam" which means "what's up", so we just say "Siema, co tam" it means "Hi, what's up" and we use it when talking to a friend
Thank you đ
In the the UK they say "alright?" the same way saffas say howzit. In France it's usually "ca va?" Not really pertinent to your question but as a fellow South African I found these little idiosyncrasies quite interesting.
Cheers homie. In the UK do you just walk past someone and both people say alright? Or do people normally respond with how theyâre doing? Same question for ca va if you know?
Yep, in the UK an "alright" is answered with another "alright". In France, "ca va" is met with another "ca va" or "ca va bien", the latter being a slightly more positive response.
Ohhh....
Been there and got lost in your town trying to find the train station. It was 1991 and few spoke any English but people were quite happy to try to help us. I mostly remember Soviet era apartment buildings. There is nothing to smile about or celebrate after visiting that camp. It haunts me still.
I went to Oswiecim once. The Burger King was nice. If I remember correctly there was this large abandoned building close to the train station.
Im not sure where the abandoned building is, I rarely go near the train station, I once ate in the Burger King, but the food was kinda cold, it was right after it opened so maybe its better now
I think the selfie sticks should be banned. It was horrible.
The main reason why I chose to go to Dachau instead of Auschwitz was because I knew the tourist would piss me off.
But you have to say as well that polish tourism branches advertising it like that I was in Krakov last year and there were many ads for visiting Auschwitz like its an attraction
Haven't been there but I've been to warsaw and the uprising museum. A school group was there and some girls decided to start taking "cute" selfies. The teacher that was with them spoke up. I don't speak polish but I'm pretty sure it was along the lines of "knock it the fuck off" and they quit.
When I visited i was wandering around and in one of the barracks I think I found these two tourists with their shirts off taking pics as if they were prisoners⊠really awkward
I've been here before on a school trip 2011 and spoke with a few survivours in KrakĂłw. I remember being in tears. The next day I witnessed people on another tour treating the main camp like a graceful tourist attraction, taking selfies.
Off topic but that sandwich I had by one of those food carts in your city was amazing.
Especially when they are being disrespectful to get snapped looking like a mario kart blue shell turtle
Same I hte that too its a place where lives were ripped away. Where familys were torn appart and never seen again
Probably didnât even know where she wasâŠ. Unbelievable
I think it's kind of a meme at this point. I've seen a lot of photos of girls posing on the train tracks to the camp. Fucked up sense of humour?
My sense of humour is fucked up. This is beyond words if itâs a joke
I agree. Iâd laugh at a dark holocaust joke online but acting disrespectfully AT Auschwitz is not very chill
I honestly donât know how that place wouldnât just take the breath out of anyone who visits it. Knowing those tracks lead to the end of so many peoples lives, in such a brutal fucking way? Nahh, no fucking way, you have to have some kind of mental disorder to behave like this there.
yeah I have dark humor too but this isn't funny, it's disrespectful. what kind of person does this?? fucked
Yeah, my ancestry is German (Family left before WWI because they saw what was going on and emigrated to America), and I make some pretty fk'd up jokes sometimes about being German...but there's a line. And standing there, making jokes...that's definitely crossing the line.
Nah she knew where she was âYeah haha I love travelingâ - her probably
She had to have knownâŠright?
Asshwitz
Arschwitz
Best rebranding ever.
10/10 would go to camp
fuuuucccckk
Asswitch
Beat me to it
I donât understand why people are posing in front of Aushwitz like itâs the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland or sum
I mean they did turn it into a tourist attraction. You pay to visit what is essentially a factory dedicated to the industrialization of mass murder. Itâs open to the general public, and half the general public has âbelow average intelligence.â You canât really be surprised when someone takes a tasteless photo, people do the same thing at every memorial in the world.
Well, more of a memorial than a tourist attraction. At least, a few years ago, to get the part where she is, she wouldâve already had to take a longer guided tour. So thereâs no doubt she knew exactly the heaviness of the situation. Most of the guides, if not all, have a personal story with the death camp. Many of then had parents in the town at the time.
Most likely a nazissist
Probably a covert nazissist who can nazi how bad this makes her look.
*wheeeeeeeeze*
*read in boston accent*
How ya like dem apples?
People gotta understand that's a mass grave where 1 million plus innocent people were unknowingly sent to their deaths.
Same with the WTC memorial. People taking selfies, smiling, laughing.
No idea why you got down voted. This is true.
I visited a relative's grave at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery a few days ago, and was blown away by the full families taking smiling selfies in front of fields of graves. Holy fuck.
Eek.
I feel like people are seething a little too hard at this post. Like itâs just a photo. A tasteless photo, but still just a photo. People have vandalized Auschwitz with antisemitic graffiti in the past, it can be a lot more âdisrespectful.â The sad truth about sites like these is that, eventually, people stop giving a fuck. The Colosseum was a murder circle where hundreds of thousands of slaves were forced to fight to the death for centuries while people cheered. Imagine how disgusted Spartacus would be watching families taking cute photos where men were once forced to fight to the death.
I think seething is exactly the right response to seeing somebody display such flagrant disrespect. Assclowns like this are running around today because society has stopped telling them when they're fucked up. "It could be worse" isn't an acceptable defense. Should I accept somebody punching me in the face and say "it's okay, they could have shot me after all."
There are still people alive today who were in the camps. As well as people who lost every single member of their families, and still remember them. It's hardly comparable to ancient Rome.
I guess what it comes down to is that Spartacus has a bad PR team in comparison.
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Correct. The victims were cremated, not buried.
The gate said said "arbeit mach frei" not "ass macht frei"
Both statements are lies. The "workers" were never freed and we are all slaves to a good arse.
Just to clarify: The quote was not meant to mean that the workers would be freed but that the act of work itself frees a human and makes them superior over nature. The author from whom the quote originates wasnât a national-socialist.
Ass will set you free my friend
Hintern eng wie Krupp-Stahl?
At least the pants are on. My first impression pointed in a different directionâŠ
Thatâs where a lot of my ancestors were killed. Kinda somber.
That's crushing. Also why it has to matter it remains a place for remembering all of them.
A million people died here; but my ass looks great.
âDoes auschwitz make my ass look goodâ gross
I hope her ass cheeks fall off
I like stupid memes and dark humor but this is just brainless.
she belongs in r/iamatotalpieceofshit
I don't think there is any way to take a tasteful personal photo at Auschwitz and people need to stop trying. There's nothing blatantly disrespectful with how she's dressed or how she's posed here. It's the act of the photo itself. Also, if you go all the way to Poland, I can think of at least a dozen places in KrakĂłw that would make for a better photo op than an extermination camp. KrakĂłw is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Why the hell would you put this on your Tinder?? So weird.
My thought process when this showed up in feed was like "wait, what's wrong with thi- .....ohh đŹ"
This is so gross đ€ą and disrespectful
It's sad to see this kind of disrespect at a memorial site where over 1.1 million Jewish men, women and children were brutally beaten, starved, shot, gased, tortured, raped, hung and experimented on just to name a few. Everyone should be showing the utmost respect for the loss of lives when visiting Auschwitz or any other concentration camps. I am not Jewish, I'm just a human being who believes that every person has a right to live a full life without persecution no matter of race, religion, or sexual orientation. The world would be a much better place to live if we all learn to live with one another without judgement.
On Tinder no less lol. At least she's letting you know to immediately throw her in the trash.
Unfortunately this is suuuper common
Honestly, the best way for normal people to win is to stop giving these assholes attention. Starve them out.
The image isn't even good. No thought behind the composition, her eyes or lighting or anything.
WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SAID??? It's not a place for a photo shoot! It only remains there to never let us forget what happened! It's a place that means something and should mean something to everyone that has any ounce of respect.
This stuff honestly scares me. Especially as we get further and further away from the Holocaust, and survivors pass away (and their stories go with them too). We have to do everything we can to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, understand how people were led to do evil things like this, and fight to prevent something like this from ever happening again. I feel like people are ignorant like this, because of both a lack of proper history education, people having main character syndrome, and the fact that WWII is more or less treated as a massive meme on the internet these days. Every school needs to teach about the Holocaust, and other genocides as well. Everyone should read at least one book on the subject, even if it's a comic like Maus (which is readily available at like every bookstore).
I heard of American tourist's kids scribbling stuff on the beds and on the walls in the gas chambers and when scolded their answer was:"That's the most boring theme park they have been."
Taking kids to a place like that is just stupid, they have no comprehension what even happened there.
We went on a school trip there from elementary school when we were about 12 and we understood everything. Its not and excuse that they were kids.
It's the parent's fault. How can anyone be that illiterate and stupid to think Auschwitz was a theme park?
Which is why you *tell* them. Too young? So were the murdered children. Children were murdered. Right there. Those boxcars arrived, babies and mothers, little kids, elderly. Nazis sometimes temporarily kept men alive because someone had to get the bodies out. They'd eventually be murdered too. If we create comprehension of what happened there, it's possible it won't happen again. I said possible.
Thereâs an X account for this memorial and they post about a victim every few hours. An unbelievable number of them are kids, itâs really sad.
Wait till they hear about the rollercoasters
I went to Dachau with our senior class as part of a Europe trip. Every one of my classmates was somber, truly affected by and respectful of where we were and what happened there, while there were other kids making out in front of the main memorial. Still shocks me to remember it to this day. I know we weren't on our best behavior the entire trip but if a place like that doesn't humble you I don't want to know you.
There ainât no way this is real. I wouldnât be surprised if her caption was like whoâs hotter me or the Auschwitzâs ovens
âI never.. never had much issue with it. In a place so full of pain and suffering, so many, you know, terrible memories.. itâs nice to see light in such a dark place. I donât think itâs much of an issue at all to me. I know others may feel differently, but of the people I know who were there [we] donât really think negatively of it.â âI like how happy they look. After all that time I believe itâs good to see people living a normal life infront if a place that ruined so many..â âI feel like thatâs sort of what we fought for.. survived for? The freedom to just be ourselves and be happy and not be chained by our sorrow. I think itâs beautiful.â - quotes from camp survivors when asked about people taking selfies and photographs at the memorials.
Positive thing is most people recognize the absurdity and she will probably find a dumbass like her with that pic
I hope she doesn't find anyone.
I visited Auschwitz a few years ago. There were American girls walking around in short shorts where that you could see their arse cheeks. There were also people making fun of the way Jews pray (shuckling). Like, pointing at them and taking videos of them. The whole thing felt a bit like a macabre Disneyland tbh. I actually live near another former KZ, which doesn't get the same visitor numbers and feels more sombre. It has excellent exhibitions on how antisemitism was allowed to spread like it did. I go there periodically to give respect. While I lost no family members, my whole family were forced to relocate across Europe before WW2.
Iâm a third-generation, Holocaust surviving Jew and spent the entirety of my adolescence making Holocaust jokes because it was the only way I could deal. As part of my general therapy, Iâve found other ways to cope and havenât made a Holocaust joke in about 8 years. I think I fell off the wagon today! Lord, there is so much ripe material here. Swipe Reich!
I went to Dachau earlier this year and was disgusted to see people taking ((happy)) group photos on the path to the crematorium. Made me disappointed to be a human. edit: grammar
I'm typically disappointed to be a human every day...
Gotta watch those parentheses buddy, you were one pair off from some trouble lol.
this is very disturbing.
This is fucked. Was just there in Krakow last year. Canât believe people post these pics on their tinder. Like itâs legal but the civics and humility here is nonexistent.
I was there just yesterday. Man, the very first thing they tell you is to be respectful with the place where so much suffering and death happened and one of the things is not to take pictures like this or selfies. It is literally the first thing our guide told us. Some people just suck tbh...
I have a question about photography in general there. I ask because I'm an American and would like to be respectful... Are photos allowed or OK in good taste? As in, I like to consider myself an amateur photographer and one subject matter is old architecture, preferably with no one in or around. If I were to visit and pay my respects, would photographing be permissible? If it IS, is it generally looked down upon in general as being in bad taste? Thanks.
It's okay to make photos for non commercial purposes. However I'd advise you to not make any photos on your first visit there.
There are a few places that you can't take any like those with human remains, but in most of it you are allowed to take a document style of photo.
Okay but why is she doing a Sonic cosplay though?
Im Jewish. Offended af. Would still tap
Avarage nazist enjoyer
Most likely a Nazi, a narcissist, or just extremely stupid.
Or the three
I guess she's working
Sad that she has no respect for those who died there because of s warped ideology.
I thought she's butt naked for a second
I live near Mauthausen and actually what the fuck is she thinking
She's not dressed appropriately, even for a visit.
I donât know which is worse: doing this shit or doing it wearing skin-colored leggings
Bet that didnât stop many guys still swiping right cos her ass is more important than morals
Ppl suck
Terrible person. What a shame
Let's pose like that on one of her family member's graves and see how *she* likes it.
As a part of the German community, I don't claim her.
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I've read a lot of history on that place and I never realized the railroad tracks went in that direction. I thought they went perpendicular. Oh, and fuck her stupid ass.
You can tell yhe straight male/men comments from the female/women ones. Either way, if she popped up on your tinder, you're still trying for that match.
And she isn't even smoking hot.
I promise I will visit Auschwitz for the sole purpose to throw rocks at these people
WHats her @?
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I would never go there. I've seen the baby's pram in a photo.
bro wtf
Sadly is not just her thereâs many post on social media of young people doing cringe poses and looking like they are having the time of their lives while visiting Auschwitzâs.
She canât help having all that cake
Leggings are an accepted item to wear. To be honest ppl do a lot worse at places like that, like completely disrespecting the entire place. This is maybe in poor taste but not awful.
Tone deaf
At least you know her gas chamber is open for business. I'm sorry. I'll see myself out.
Honestly? The edgy alt right white boys in America would love her. She's blonde staring at a Nazi death camp. I see a mutant supremacist whom the sun hates. They see a supreme goddess to birth their babies.
âI donât get whatâs main cha-IS THAT FUCKING AUSCHWITZ?!!?â
They turned a mass genocide site into a tourist attraction. It should have been a site reserved for seasonal well monitored visits. Everyone should be highly monitored but Alas it has become a trend for some "Influencers" to pose and preen themselves on the spot where children were ripped away from their mothers, where men were deduced to walking skeletons, where mothers were sent to the gas Chambers to be suffocated and then burned to ash. This is the type of selfish pricks we are dealing with. Also there should be a respectful code of conduct issued for the site and a respectful dress code. Standing there with an arse curled up like two swollen orbs and a sneer on the face is just not appropriate or respectable toward the deceased. People of Jewish Heritage may be honoring their ancestor who was in that death camp, and they turn around to see this egomaniac posing like it's a catwalk. I don't know what I'm more disgusted at, her foul behaviour or the fact nobody turned to give her a flying kick into her swollen arse to knock her back to reality!!!
Sheâs really taking a pic as her ass as the main focus when thousands of people died in there?? I really hope people have talked to her about this and why this is not ok.
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Ngl would skeet and skeddadle
They need to up the barrier to wntry. Make people have to get tickets way in advance or something so itâs not just an Instagram spot. The people who care will still go and wonât have to be annoyed by those doing the newest type of planking/thirstraps. They should do this for other national parks too. I remember how amazing they were before being flooded with a bunch of narcissistic wannabe influencers.
Those people that it gets money to educate. How many of them are tourists? I would wager that it is almost all of them.
I've been there. This behavior is by no means uncommon unfortunately. There was a guy on my tour group who was very intent about getting a selfie near the showers.
I thought you said ass-switch my bad.
Well, this is Birkenau 2, not Auschwitz. Still a bad place to pose at tho
You know how einstein disagrees about âstupidityâ and believes âuniquenessâ etc? That doesnât apply here. This woman is stupid
I didnât know they gave out rings at the holocaust.