Tripadvisor removes insensitive evaluate of Auschwitz Museum – KIRO 7 Information Seattle

NEEDHAM, Mass. – (AP) – The travel website Tripadvisor removed an insensitive review of the Auschwitz Museum after initially declaring it complies with submission guidelines.

The museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland tweeted Thursday that it had asked the Massachusetts-based travel website to write down a review in which the author said they went to Auschwitz to “test the chamber” and the location ” Family fun. “

More than 1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz during World War II.

According to the company, “it complies with submission guidelines,” the tweet read.

Tripadvisor later reversed course, removed the review and banned the user who wrote it.

The museum then thanked Tripadvisor.

In a statement, the company said it does not tolerate discrimination and regularly block or remove millions of reviews that violate its policies.

“In this case, our initial screening failed to identify this review as promoting intolerance. Our escalation process removed this review. We always strive to get it right the first time and apologize to the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum and the entire Jewish community for this first mistake, “the statement said.

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This story was changed to correct the style of the company name in Tripadvisor instead of TripAdvisor.