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The seller’s description described the items as “Auschwitz War Camp Prison Christmas Ornament(s),” and described them as “the ideal city souvenir to commemorate and share the cities you have visited.” One of the items featured the inscription “Krakow, Poland.” The Auschwitz complex is approximately 40 miles from Krakow.

Other products offered by the seller included similar ornaments featuring imagery of various Polish towns.

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FILE PHOTO: Participants attend the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo
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The memorial’s initial tweet had attracted over 25,000 likes and almost 8,000 retweets at the time of writing.

Several users said that they had contacted Amazon to attempt to have the products removed. The products were not sold directly by Amazon, but by a third-party seller with the username Fcheng.

The memorial tweeted later that day, saying that Amazon appeared to have removed the items, and thanked users for their support.

Selling \"Christmas ornaments\" with images of Auschwitz does not seem appropriate. Auschwitz on a bottle opener is rather disturbing and disrespectful. We ask @amazon to remove the items of those suppliers. https://t.co/0uG2JG558e pic.twitter.com/ucZoTWPk1W

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019

It later tweeted identifying products offered on the Amazon platform by another seller featuring images from Auschwitz, and calling for their removal. The items in question were a mouse pad featuring a watchtower outside a barbed wire fence and a rail car it said was used to deport Jews for extermination.

Sadly, it is not over yet @amazon. The \"Massacre Auschwitcz (!) Birkenau Jewish Death\" mousepad is another disturbing online product. We are not sure if @yadvashem would like the \"Christmas ornament\" with a freight car used for deporting Jews for extermination either. https://t.co/qDEEzqzwSU pic.twitter.com/wXExhFZPmV

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019

Amazon said in a statement: “All sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who do not will be subject to action, including potential removal of their account. The products in question have been removed.”

According to the Auschwitz Memorial, over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives in the Nazi-run concentration camp between 1940 and 1945.

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