


The Auschwitz Memorial called out the WWE this week after an image of the concentration camp was used in a promotional video for a face-off last weekend.
An image of barbed wire fences and guard towers at the Polish concentration camp appeared in a pre-show clip for a WrestleMania match between father-son stars Rey and Dominik Mysterio on April 2, CBS News reported.
“The fact that Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call ‘an editing mistake,’” the museum wrote on Twitter Wednesday.
“Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz.”
Built in 1940, Auschwitz is one of the most visceral remaining sites and memorials of the Holocaust.
At least 1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed there in just five years.
The five-minute WWE video was used to hype up a storyline ahead of the match, NPR said.
Images from the camp appeared with audio of Dominik Mysterio pretending to be a jailed criminal.
Although WWE has not discussed the blunder publicly, Auschwitz does not appear in the YouTube replays of the fight.
The two-night event broke records at Inglewood, Calif.’s SoFi Stadium, selling over 161,000 tickets for the live matches.
It also streamed exclusively on NBC’s Peacock, where it pulled in more watched hours than any live event except the Superbowl, Deadline said.