KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Elon Musk visited the positioning of the Auschwitz-Birkenau World War II Nazi German demise camp on Monday, after the billionaire confronted criticism for subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy idea and permitting hate messages on his social media platform, X, previously often called Twitter.
The non-public go to was apparently in response to calls from some Jewish non secular leaders for Musk to see along with his personal eyes essentially the most symbolic web site of the horrors of the Holocaust.
Musk was photographed visiting the Birkenau web site. Birkenau is an space close to Oswiecim, in southern Poland, fenced off with barbed wire, the place picket barracks that had been easy shelters for the inmates and the ruins of a gasoline chamber will be discovered and the place a monument to the victims stands. International ceremonies are held there yearly.
Musk had been anticipated to make the go to on Tuesday, along with political figures attending a convention of the European Jewish Association on the rise of antisemitism.
Later Monday, Musk was to debate antisemitism on-line as a part of a convention by the European Jewish Association held in Krakow forward of the Jan. 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place on the anniversary of the camp’s 1945 liberation.