“Bachelor” reality TV star Anna Redman received death threats because of Instagram post about Auschwitz

An American reality TV star says she received death threats after offending Instagram users by posting her outfit choice for an upcoming visit to Auschwitz.

In an interview with TMZ, the former Bachelor Candidate Anna Redman said she had received death threats on Instagram, with one user telling her, “I hope they kill you when you’re there.”

Redman had posted a list of clothes she wanted to wear on her vacation in Poland. The list included an outfit for her visit to the concentration camp where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered during the Holocaust. The post was captioned, “Test pack hack… Will anyone top my freak?”

Other Instagram users accused Redman, who has 114,000 followers on Instagram, of being “tone deaf.” One person wrote that the post “implied that she was going to take ‘aesthetic’ photos in a death camp where over a million people were murdered.” Redman later apologized and deleted the post.

The issue of visitors taking selfies at Auschwitz has caused controversy in the past. Last year, the Auschwitz Museum warned visitors to respect the site after a photo of two smiling visitors taken by British producer Maria Murphy went viral. Murphy described seeing the two smiling for a photo inside the camp as “one of the most harrowing moments of my life.”

Other celebrities have been accused of trivializing the memory of the Holocaust when visiting historical sites. Justin Bieber wrote in a guest book at the Anne Frank Museum in 2013 that he hoped Frank, who died in a concentration camp, would have been “a Belieber,” a term used to describe fans of the Canadian superstar.

In 2022, Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote in the Auschwitz guest book “I will come back,” which some see as an allusion to his famous sentence in Terminator Movies. The museum, which posted the guestbook message on X, formerly Twitter, immediately defended the former governor of California, saying: “The inscription should be a promise to return for another and more detailed visit.”