On TikTok, a new video trend is cringe in Poland. For some time now, users have claimed to recount how they died during the Holocaust, sometimes sporting fake wounds or a striped uniform with a star.
This trend entitled "victims" is "hurtful and offensive", reacted the Auschwitz museum on Twitter on Wednesday. “Some videos are dangerously close or already beyond a trivialization of history. "
The 'victims' trend on TikTok can be hurtful & offensive. Some videos are dangerously close or already beyond the border of trivialization of history.
But we should discuss this not to shame & attack young people whose motivation seem very diverse. It's an educational challenge. pic.twitter.com/CB4Ve2uRUK
"Various" intentions behind the videos, according to the Memorial
"Some videos were not created in memory of someone, but to be part of the online trend," said the Memorial, located in the town of Oswiecim (southern Poland). " It is very painful. "
But the museum does not want to blame too much the young people authors of these videos, whose intentions seem "very diverse" according to the museum. A million European Jews perished in Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945 out of the 6 million exterminated during the genocide. More than 100,000 non-Jews also died there, according to the museum. Nearly 232,000 victims were children.
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