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Amazon today withdrew Christmas decorations with images of the Auschwitz concentration camp, after a shower of criticism, including that of the Auschwitz museum itself.
The museum asked the US distributor to stop offering "disrespectful" ornaments with the suffering of people who died in the countryside.
Until now, ornaments to decorate the Christmas tree with images of the barbed wire of Auschwitz or the "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work free") poster that presides its main entrance could be purchased from Amazon.
After knowing the macabre Christmas offer, the Auschwitz museum published several photographs of the ornaments on their social networks, which provoked a barrage of user criticism from all over the world against Amazon.
"Selling Christmas decorations with images of Auschwitz does not seem appropriate, in fact it is quite disturbing and disrespectful," the museum published through its Twitter account.
The Auschwitz concentration camp was launched in 1940 by the Nazis in occupied Poland, and was operational until January 27, 1945, when it was liberated by the Soviet army.
It is estimated that more than one million people, mostly Jews, died in Auschwitz and in the annexed field, Birkenau (Oswiecim and Brzezinka, in Polish) due to ill-treatment, gas chambers, hunger, exhaustion and The diseases.
Today, Auschwitz is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a 200-hectare memorial museum visited every year by more than one million people.
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