A photo taken by a shocked onlooker of a visitor posing inappropriately at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp has gone viral, prompting the museum to issue a warning.
The picture showed the smiling tourist sitting on the railway tracks that transported more than a million Jewish people to their deaths. In a lounging position, her hand was in her hair and her head was tilted to the sky. A man crouched down on the tracks in front of her taking the picture.
“Today I had one of the most harrowing experiences of my life. Regrettably it didn’t seem everyone there found it quite so poignant,” Maria Murphy, a producer at UK news channel GB News, wrote alongside the picture of the scene on Twitter.
Ms Murphy said the tour had been going for at least an hour before the tourist’s picture – and visitors were repeatedly asked to be mindful and respectful.