It does come off as kind of insensitive—the smiley emoticon more so than the photo really—but hardly worthy of the level of scorn being heaped on her by other people. I think it's interesting that, even though she said that she was smiling because it's somewhere her and her recently deceased father always wanted to go together, I didn't see anyone asking why Auschwitz of all places was somewhere they wanted to visit. Maybe they had relatives who were imprisoned there. Maybe they had relatives who helped liberate the place. Who knows, but as usual people will jump to conclusions based on a surface reading of a single photo.
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