TripAdvisor Belatedly Takes Down ‘Fun for the Family’ Review of Auschwitz Museum After Complaints

Despite being a site of sacred remembrance and anguish, the location of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex is often the target of incidents ranging from the insensitive to the deliberately offensive, particularly with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in recent years.

The Auschwitz Museum in Poland recently announced that an offensive review of their facility posted on travel website TripAdvisor had successfully been removed – but not without a fight.

According to the museum, which is located at the Nazi-built concentration camp and death camp outside Oswiecim, Poland, TripAdvisor initially refused to remove the review after the museum complained, saying it “complies with our submission guidelines and will remain published on TripAdvisor.”

​However, at some point the website decided to reverse its decision, since the review is now gone.

The camp was established following the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939 and converted from a soldiers’ barracks into a death camp for conducting mass exterminations in line with Nazi racial and eugenic theories. Roughly 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz before it was liberated, the vast majority of them Jews but also Romani, Poles, Russians, and others, primarily through the use of poison gas in specialized gassing chambers. As the Soviet Red Army advanced westward in the closing months of World War II, the Nazis attempted to disguise their crimes, but were unsuccessful. The day the Soviets liberated the camp – January 27, 1945 – became International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sourse: sputniknews.com