Amazon removes the Auschwitz Christmas ornaments after the reaction
The ornaments drew the indignation after the Auschwitz Memorial shared them on Twitter.
Amazon removed Christmas ornaments describing the Auschwitz concentration camp of his site after his return on social media. Sunday, the Twitter official account for theMemorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau Posted screenshots of bell flake and snowflake-shaped ornaments for sale at Amazon, which offers photos from Nazi camp where more than a million people, mainly Jews, were killed.
"Sell Christmas ornaments" with images of Auschwitz does not seem appropriate ", the Twoeting Memorial Auschwitz Tweetant, asking Amazon to remove the objects.
People were scandalized that he would occur to anyone to transform images from Auschwitz into something festive.
Auschwitz's commemorative posted an update on Sunday to say that it seemed that Amazon had removed the ornaments, but there were more disruptive products on the site: Mousepad "Massacre Auschwitcz Birkenau Jewish Cathem", and a Other mousepad representing a car freight car used to transport the prisoners of the camp.
Following a similar toprol, Amazon also removed these items. "All sellers must follow our sales guidelines and those who will not be subjected to action, including the potential withdrawal of their account," said a spokesperson for AmazonNBC News Monday.Guidelines for sellers State that Amazon "does not allow products that promote, encourage or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations such views".
The Auschwitz Memorial thanked those who put pressure on the online retail giant to act, and then displayed another tweet indicating that the ornaments were still available on the e-commerce websiteWish.com, pushing the retailer to also remove the products. "These items are completely inappropriate and should not have been listed by the sellers on our platform. We kidnap them as an emergency," said a spokesman of WishReuters.
"We consider this incident rather isolated"Pawel Sawicki, Head of the Auschwitz Memorial press, "said Reuters. "What seems to be a problem is that more and more producers use image catcher software and place hundreds of images on their products in the hope of finding customers." And if you want to be educated about why these products Auschwitz caused such a reaction, moreover more on the Holocaust in the middle of these30 amazing facts about the Second World War that will change your way to see it forever.