Antisemitic comments discovered on the Auschwitz Google Maps site

• Author: GADI ZAIG
• Date: 30 March 2021
• Published date: 30 March 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

However, the majority of these comments remained online 24 hours after they were reported to Google by The Guardian.

Google Maps was then slammed by campaigners as a result of these unmoderated comments.

The comments discovered, many of which were anonymous, included phrases such as "Heil Hitler" and "Showers were a great experience, Anne Frankly I'm glad I came." These comments had apparently been left on the site for months and even years.

Some users even posed as historical figures such as Adolf Hitler and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, best known for his book Survival in Auschwitz.

The chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, told the news site that the comments were "sickening" and that "Google needs to take responsibility for the hate being shared on their site and take steps to monitor and remove such abhorrent content, and improve and change their moderation and policies."

"We are appalled by these reviews on our platform and are...