WhilePinkspent time with her children in Berlin, she shared several photos from her time in the European city — including her two children at the city’sHolocaust Memorial.
In the photo, her daughterWillow Sage, 8, and sonJameson Moon, 2½, can be seen running through the memorial. Pink, who has been incredibly vocal in the past about the “parenting police,” went on to caption the slideshow of images with an explanation of why she chose to include the image of her children, even though she knew many online might not understand.
“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,” added Pink, who will be performing in Berlin on Sunday as part of herBeautiful Trauma world tour.
Peter Eisenman, the American architect who designed the memorial, has previously shared that he has no problem with some of the more light-hearted ways visitors respond to the space.
“People have been jumping around on those pillars forever. They’ve been sunbathing, they’ve been having lunch there andI think that’s fine,” Eisenman told the BBC in 2017. “A memorial is an everyday occurrence, it is not sacred ground.”
“Please don’t imagine for one second that the people who died in that massacre wouldn’t want the sound of children’s laughter to surround the space outside because it is SO HEAVY inside,” wrote one social media user.
“Just because you visit a sad place, does not mean you have to be sad and take sad photos,” added another. “People would much rather have their deaths be a ground for happiness rather than sadness.”
A third social media user went on to correctly point out that the memorial was not built on the same ground as any burial sites. “On another note this site is not where any of the atrocities happened. So no one is jumping on anyone’s actual graves,” they shared.
Pink, Carey Hart, and their kids.Rob Latour/Variety/Shutterstock
This isn’t the first time Pink has visited Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial with her daughter.
During an interview withReese Witherspoonlast year, Pink opened up about how hard and rewarding it can be to bring her kids on tour with her.
“We went to Budapest, and we went to Berlin, and the Holocaust memorial,” the musician recalled, explaining that after her daughter, who was 6 at the time, learned her grandmother was Jewish, she replied, “Well, then this could have been us.”
source: people.com
