Organizers at the Auschwitz Museum tweeted a plea last week for respect, asking visitors to stop posting selfies on the railway tracks leading into the building – the same tracks that transported trainloads of prisoners during World War II.
At other Holocaust memorials around Europe, social media use is seen largely as a positive development.
Morsch has seen attitudes change toward Holocaust memorial sites, especially as fewer people from the generation who lived through the horror remains. Yet, overall, he is impressed: “The overwhelming majority of the 700,000 visitors a year behave appropriately.” Railroad tracks lead to the entrance of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Jan. 27, 2018. Trains brought people to the camp.
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