Amazon removed several products from its shopping website that featured images of Nazi concentration camps.
The Auschwitz Museum and Memorial brought this up on Twitter after Christmas ornaments and a bottle opener were posted for sale with pictures of Auschwitz camp which resulted in the extermination of over 1 million Jews.
The Museum called the items ‘disturbing and disrespectful’.
Selling “Christmas ornaments” with images of Auschwitz does not seem appropriate. Auschwitz on a bottle opener is rather disturbing and disrespectful. We ask @amazon to remove the items of those suppliers. https://t.co/0uG2JG558e pic.twitter.com/ucZoTWPk1W
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019
Sadly, it is not over yet @amazon. The “Massacre Auschwitcz (!) Birkenau Jewish Death” mousepad is another disturbing online product. We are not sure if @yadvashem would like the “Christmas ornament” with a freight car used for deporting Jews for extermination either. https://t.co/qDEEzqzwSU pic.twitter.com/wXExhFZPmV
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019
Amazon, took its time but ultimately addressed this and took down the products by Monday morning. The The Auschwitz Memorial thanked for the quick response.
