Amazon takes down Christmas presents that remind you of the Holocaust
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.
