Pink defends photo of her children running in Holocaust memorial
Singer opens up about Jewish family
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Your support makes all the difference.Pink has spoken out against critics of her recent Instagram photo which sees her children running in the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany.
On Sunday, the singer posted a series of photos from her family’s trip to Berlin with one that sees her children, Willow and Jameson, running through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe – commonly known as the Holocaust Memorial.
In the caption to the photographs, Pink defended her decision to post the image of her children, telling her fans that her family have Jewish heritage.
“These two children are in actuality Jewish, as am I and the entirety of my mothers family [sic],” she captioned the photographs.
“The very person who constructed this believed in children being children, and to me this is a celebration of life after death. Please keep your hatred and judgment to yourselves.”
Several of the singer’s Instagram followers commented on the image to share their messages of support, including actor Selma Blair.
“I love Berlin too,” commented Blair. “I love that what happened is not being forgotten. I love this celebration of life. I love you.”
Another commented that the memorial’s architect “said that children playing there is a good thing and that it is no contrast to the place”.
“Children doing children stuff and enjoying their childhood is in fact a good thing there,” they wrote.
Another commented: “I’m Jewish, relatives died in the camps, friends have died in attacks on synagogues. Nothing about the picture is offensive.
“These children are learning their history. It gives me joy to see children enjoying life and continuing on when so many died.
“It shows the bloodline and spirit of the Jewish people lives on and they were not wiped out and will not disappear or stop living their lives freely.”
Eisenman, the architect who designed the memorial and worked on the project with engineer Buro Happold, previously told the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit that he believes his site, which was completed in 2004, “could no longer be built today” as Europe has become “afraid of strangers”.
“The social climate has changed; much that has previously been considered acceptable is now questioned,” he told the publication.
In April, Pink said that she would no longer post photos of her children after receiving criticism for sharing a photograph of her two-year-old song, Jameson, not wearing a nappy.
“People went as far as saying someone should call child services because he didn’t have a diaper on and how dare I and just like some of the nastiest things,” the “Just Give Me A Reason” singer told Ellen DeGeneres of her eponymously-titled talk show.
“I cried so hard after that because I like to share my family, it’s my proudest moment,” she added. “I’m prouder of my kids than anything I’ve done in my whole life and I just won’t share them anymore, I won’t do it. I’m not posting pictures of them anymore.”
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