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Does the lady who left a bad review for Auschwitz cafe deserve the backlash she got?

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Autumnalbride · Yesterday 08:33

https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/25/woman-complained-auschwitz-cafe-told-its-not-a-theme-park-amid-international-backlash-29652566/?ito=facebook%7Csocial%7Cmetroukfacebook&ito=facebook%7Csocial%7Cmetroukfacebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUkUmxjbGNrBSRSYmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeUAh5I2nq52a9dRkF1e-iuGBP1ALY4oqodB0c14qhn87-Vu7cmkC2m7laj8aembgCBZpFkEmUTvQd-SaC4w

Pretend I'm the lady (I'm not)

I am being unreasonable - the point of visiting Auschwitz is not the cafe, you're missing the point and undermining the importance by focusing on that in your review and insulting victims

I am not being unreasonable - A cafe is a cafe and you should be allowed to say so if the food is terrible, regardless of where you are.

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Slumgullion · Yesterday 11:48

Txutxioyigx · Yesterday 10:38

The cafe is at the far end of Birkenau car park and is privately owned. There’s no getting round the fact that Auschwitz is a tourist destination and has thousands of visitors. She also said that the camp ‘should be flattened’ so she hasn’t done herself any favours in the way she’s come across

Yes, I think your second sentence is key. Auschwitz is, mind-bendingly, both the site of incomprehensible atrocities and also a major tourist attraction.

If you google 'things to do in Krakow', tours of Auschwitz that will pick you up from your hotel appear top of the list, along with horsedrawn tours of the Old Town and the salt mines -- in fact lots of cheery ads encourage you to do a combination day divided between Auschwitz and the salt mines in the same way as Tripadvisor suggests the London Eye and the Tower of London.

I have neither been to Auschwitz nor seen the TikTok, but it's clear the woman in question is viewing the cafe as a tourist attraction rip off, rather than an aspect adjacent to a memorial site that commemorates genocide.

shiningcuckoo · Yesterday 11:57

Yes. I think she does deserve the backlash. She was unbearably smug through the whole event and continued to paint herself in a corner with defensiveness and poorly thought through comments. No one wants to think about your strawberry smoothie or your daughter’s lemonade whilst simultaneously considering the horrors of Auschwitz.

LizzieW1969 · Yesterday 12:20

shiningcuckoo · Yesterday 11:57

Yes. I think she does deserve the backlash. She was unbearably smug through the whole event and continued to paint herself in a corner with defensiveness and poorly thought through comments. No one wants to think about your strawberry smoothie or your daughter’s lemonade whilst simultaneously considering the horrors of Auschwitz.

She was definitely tone deaf, no doubt about that.

olympicsrock · Yesterday 12:32

I think her review and comments were in extremely poor taste . Sickening to be honest. Very disrespectful too.

fumingrightnow1 · Yesterday 12:38

I think the video she made was a bit thoughtless. Your at Auschwitz and recording yourself moaning about the price and taste of a drink there is a time and a place and thats not it.

TonTonMacoute · Yesterday 12:38

Some people have nothing better to do than spew out anonymous bile to strangers on the internet. They need to take a good hard look at themselves frankly.

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