World Wrestling Entertainment has issued an apology for using a shot of an Auschwitz concentration camp in a promo during WrestleMania this past weekend.
A video highlighting the feud between Rey and Dominik Mysterio, a real-life father and son, used a clip from one of the camps.
A WrestleMania sign hangs above the crowd during a WWE Monday Night RAW event in Boston on March 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
In the promo, Dominik said he «had a hard time» in prison, playing up the storyline where he beat up his father on Christmas and got arrested.
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Shots of barbed wire and a jail cell were used before it focused on a shot of the camp.
«We had no knowledge of what was depicted,» WWE said in a statement. «As soon as we found out, she was removed immediately.»
The clip has since been revised.
Rey Mysterio waves to the crowd during a WWE World Cup Quarterfinals match as part of the WWE Crown Jewel pay-per-view at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh on November 2, 2018. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images)
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«The fact that the Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call ‘an editing error,'» the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted earlier this week, «exploiting the site that became a symbol of an enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults memory». of all the victims of Auschwitz».
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Auschwitz was the largest Nazi concentration camp in Germany, where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered.