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An online store has come under a [strum / storm] of criticism for selling items with images of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the Nazi German concentration camp. The website Redbubble has [apologies / apologized] for selling skirts, pillows, bags and [another / other] products that had photos of Auschwitz printed [on / in] them. The Auschwitz Memorial Museum tweeted [that / what] the products were "disturbing and [disrespectful / disrespectfully] ". It asked: "Do you really think that selling [so / such] products as pillows, mini skirts or tote bags with the images of Auschwitz - a place of [enormously / enormous] human tragedy where over 1.1 million people were murdered - is acceptable?" Redbubble [fast / quickly] responded and said it was [taking / taken] "immediate action to remove" the items.

It is [estimation / estimated] that at least 1.3 million people were sent to and incarcerated in the concentration camp [in / on] German[-occupied / -occupation] Poland during World War II. Over 90 per cent of these were Jews. The Nazis murdered 1.1 million of the [detainees / detains] between 1940-45. Poles, Romani, Russian prisoners [off / of] war and others were also killed. Most of the 1.1 million died in the gas chambers. Others died of [starvation / starve] , hard labor and [diseased / disease] . Redbubble said it, "takes a strong stance against [racism / racist] and violence, including the atrocities [committed / commission] in Nazi concentration camps". A Twitter user wrote: "How very disrespectful to the memories of those murdered by the Nazis and the [painful / pain] of their families."