Selfies at Sobibor: Website mocking insensitive visitors to Holocaust memorial goes viral
Berlin-based Israeli artist Shahak Shapira created the photomontage website to bring attention to the behavior of some visitors at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin who take inappropriate or insensitive photos.
The initiator, Shahak Shapira, told The Associated Press Thursday he created the "Yolocaust" website after seeing selfies and pictures of young, smiling people posing on the memorial to the 6 million murdered Jews of Europe for several years.
According to Shapira, the website went live Wednesday and was clicked more than 500,000 times.
Shapira, a Berlin-based Israeli satirist and grandson of a Holocaust survivor, said the selfies didn't disturb him, but he thought it was "a shame that there are people who don't care."
The Berlin memorial consists of thousands of concrete slabs, comparable to a gigantic graveyard meant to symbolize the millions of victims of Nazi Germany.
In the event that you recognize yourself or one of your friends on the website, you can email Shapira at [email protected] to request the photo be removed.
