In October 2020, Facebook reversed its policy and banned Holocaust denial from the platform. In 2019, the Auschwitz Museum requested that visitors not take inappropriate selfie. In his 2018 book Postcards from Auschwitz, Grinnell professor Daniel P. Reynolds defends the practice of selfie-taking at Auschwitz.
About The Holocaust and social media in brief
Some visitors take selfies at Holocaust memorials, which has been the subject of controversy. The Israeli artist and satirist Shahak Shapira set up the website yolocaust. de in 2017 to expose people who take inappropriate selfies at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. In October 2020, Facebook reversed its policy and banned Holocaust denial from the platform. Some social media users post in order to criticize what they see as inappropriate behavior at Holocaust sites, with one commenting, \”Taking photos posing next to razor wire, selfies with victim’s hair in the background, and even group shots in front of the crematoria had to be seen to be believed\”.
In his 2018 book Postcards from Auschwitz, Grinnell professor Daniel P. Reynolds defends the practice of selfie-taking at Auschwitz. In 2019, the Auschwitz Museum requested that visitors not take inappropriate selfie, although the museum’s staff acknowledged that other visitors took selfies in a thoughtful and respectful manner.
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