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TikTok Holocaust videos 'hurtful', says Auschwitz museum

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POLAND - The Auschwitz museum on Wednesday called a new trend for users of video-sharing platform TikTok to role-play Holocaust victims &quot;hurtful and offensive,&quot; but added that it did not want to shame young people involved.The museum at the site of the former Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was responding to the so-called #POV or point-of-view videos in which users pretend to be Jewish WWII victims.The short clips feature youths recounting how they died in the Holocaust, and sometimes show them sporting fake bruises, a striped inmate outfit or one of the yellow star patches used by the Nazis to mark Jews&#x27; clothes.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/01/14/20/how-the-world-discovered-the-nazi-death-camps">How the world discovered the Nazi death camps</a></li></ul>&quot;The &#x27;victims&#x27; trend on TikTok can be hurtful &amp; offensive. Some videos are dangerously close or already beyond the border of trivialization of history,&quot; the Auschwitz Memorial said on Twitter.&quot;Some were not created to commemorate anyone, but to become part of an online trend. This is very painful,&quot; said the museum located in the southern Polish city of Oswiecim.&quot;But we should discuss this, not to shame &amp; attack young people whose motivation seem very diverse. It&#x27;s an educational challenge,&quot; it added.Nazi Germany set up the death camp after occupying Poland during World War II.The Holocaust site has become a symbol of Nazi Germany&#x27;s genocide of six million European Jews, with one million killed at the camp between 1940 and 1945.More than 100,000 non-Jews also died there, according to the museum. An estimated 232,000 of the victims were children.<div>amj/tgb</div><div>© Agence France-Presse</div>

POLAND - The Auschwitz museum on Wednesday called a new trend for users of video-sharing platform TikTok to role-play Holocaust victims "hurtful and offensive," but added that it did not want to shame young people involved.

POLAND - The Auschwitz museum on Wednesday called a new trend for users of video-sharing platform TikTok to role-play Holocaust victims "hurtful and offensive," but added that it did not want to shame young people involved.