The shameless woman is seen posing on the railway track in front of Auschwitz Birkenau in Poland, where more than 1 million people were murdered during World War 2

A woman caught posing 'like a model' at a Nazi death camp has sparked global outrage.

The visitor posed on the rail track at Auschwitz Birkenau, where more than 1m people were murdered in occupied Poland.

She throws her head back in a modelling pose as her companion captures the image.

The sick scene was witnessed by Maria Murphy, a producer with GB News. She tweeted the shocking image which was shared 23.7m times.

She told her followers: “Today I had one of the most harrowing experiences of my life. Regrettably it didn't seem everyone there found it quite so poignant."

Afterwards she said: "I had just come out of arguably the worst place, the gas chambers. I saw multiple people, not just this woman, making efforts to put on their most flattering pose.

"After utter bewilderment, I did not know what to do. But the first thing I thought was to call it out, to say this needs to stop.

"I am not surprised that a lot of people were appalled by it. But the thing that stunned me the most was that there were thousands who replied to say that they had been to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, the 9/11 museum, and seen the same thing.

"People care more about what they look like on social media than actually taking in what happened in these places."

By today, the photograph had almost 24m views on Twitter.

Tom Bazan wrote: "Just how low can people go? In a place like Auschwitz, you really need to show some humanity. "

One person added: “This is stomach-churning.”

Museum chiefs urged visitors to show respect and bear in mind that they are in the 'authentic site of the former camp'.

A spokesman said: “When you come to Auschwitz, remember you where more than one million people were murdered.

"Respect their memory."