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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Holocaust museum in DC: Stop playing Pokemon Go here
The Holocaust museum in Washington, DC urges Pokemon Go players to stop from catching the game’s characters on its grounds.
The game, which requires players to collect the characters as they appear on the screens of their smartphones in real world places, has used other sensitive locations around the world, including synagogues, mosques and even the Western Wall and the Auschwitz death camp.
“Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism,” says museum communications director Andrew Hollinger, according to The Forward. “We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game.”
Cannot believe this even had to be said:
Holocaust Museum Bans Pokémon Go as Fad Spreads https://t.co/98I1OjETdA pic.twitter.com/b8VeWMBv5q— Laura E. Adkins (@Laura_E_Adkins) July 12, 2016
The Times of Israel Community.