Preserving Auschwitz

Mon, 01/19/2015 - 5:02pm

Auschwitz should never have existed, so why are we so keen to cling onto it? Would it not be reasonable to scrub it from the landscape, remove the very thought of what it represents from our minds, recognize it as the cemetery it is, then grass it over and leave the dead to rest in peace?  

Roman Kent on arriving at Auschwitz
Eva Kor on her experience with Josef Mengele
Dario Gabbai on being a Sonderkommando
Branko Lustig on returning to Auschwitz for a film shoot
Day 64 of 70 Days of Testimony: Miriam Ziegler on escape
Day 63 of 70 Days of Testimony: Tova Friedman on evading the death march
Day 62 of 70 Days of Testimony: Helena Silvers on forced labor in the camp hospital
Day 61 of 70 Days of Testimony: John Bergeisen on the destruction of Auschwitz
Emerich Fuchs

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