A pillow featuring images from the Birkenau Nazi death camp: Image: Twitter‘This is rather disturbing and disrespectful.’
A website has come under fire for selling ‘disturbing and disrespectful’ Auschwitz memorabilia.
American retailer Red Bubble was called out by the Auschwitz Museum for a bizarre range of mini-skirts, pillows, bags and T-shirts featuring images from the infamous Nazi concentration camp.
A tote bag had an image of an electric fence with the words ‘Attention!, High voltage! Risk of death!’ written in German across it.
An estimated 1.1 million people were murdered in the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps in the holocaust during WW2.
Some 90% of the people who died were Jewish, killed alongside Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gypsies, Poles and gay people.
A mini-skirt has an image of the chimneys from the Auschwitz concentration camp: PictureTwitterUnderstandably, the official Auschwitz Memorial condemned American retailer Red Bubble for putting the sickening items on its site. They wrote: ‘Do you really think that selling such products as pillows, mini-skirts or tote bags with the images of Auschwitz – a place of enormous human tragedy where over 1.1 million people were murdered – is acceptable? ‘This is rather disturbing and disrespectful.’
.@redbubble Do you really think that selling such products as pillows, mini skirts or tote bags with the images of Auschwitz - a place of enormous human tragedy where over 1,1 million people were murdered - is acceptable? This is rather disturbing and disrespectful. pic.twitter.com/cdPvZGMXC6
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) May 7, 2019
Red Bubble then responded on Twitter and said the items were ‘not acceptable.’
The online retailer said it sold goods from a community of independent artists and the Auschwitz-related products broke its selling guidelines.
The items have now been removed from the website.
