'There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolises deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths'. 9News
In a Twitter post, the museum and memorial urged them to “respect” the memory of the site where “over 1 million people were killed”."There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolises deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths".
German-controlled railways in World War II transported millions of Jewish prisoners in the Holocaust along with millions of ethnic Poles and Russians, Romani people, prisoners of war, the physically and mentally disabled, political prisoners and gay people. When they arrived at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland and other concentration camps, prisoners were quickly sorted into those fit enough for work and the weaker ones who would be gassed to death.
The Auschwitz Memorial later clarified that photography at the site would continue to be permitted. It directed visitors to its Instagram account for examples of appropriate images to commemorate victims.
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