Auschwitz Birkenau

...And Along Come Tourists

"Death is a Master from Germany
His eye is blue
He shoots you with shot made of lead
Shoots you level and true"
(Paul Celan)

"What is Auschwitz-Birkenau today?? It is the site of former German-Nazi Concentration -Extermination Camp, it is the Museum, it is the largest cemetery in the world, it is the WW II history icon, it is the religious challenge for Judaism and Christianity, it is the material proof of Nazi genocide, it is the site of mass education, it is the site of mass tourism etc. Those are just the most important functions of this site which all coexist, are interrelated, and play into the frictions in the daily reality of this place. Every visitor will find a different appropriate answer and a different way of putting the reasons of his or her visit on the importance scale. With a few thousands of visitors daily there are days when at one time on the museum grounds there are-- in different guided groups-- the survivors of Auschwitz with their families, some members of the families of the perpetrators;, Holocaust historians, Holocaust revisionists (like David Irving), orthodox Jews, Catholics following the stations of the cross, Buddhists deeply into their meditations, leading world politicians with their very pompous speeches, and thousands of accidental tourists who happen to be there only because the travel operator put in on their itinerary among 4 other sites to see on the same day. Auschwitz-Birkenau today has to accommodate it all. These colorful, loud masses, often strongly opinionated and convinced about the importance of the site, have to coexist in the sobering physically of Auschwitz-Birkenau . The growth of mass tourism in the last ten years creates an enormous challenge for educators and technical problems for the museum as well as large opportunities for the global community to be more exposed to the historical as well as the contemporary cases of genocide. "

read the full text:
http://www.jewish-guide.pl/sites/22

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Holocaust
• KZ
• KL
• Extermination
• camp
• concentration
• Gaskammer
• gas
• chamber
• Nazis

[belinda2118]

Very well presented, thankyou.

[1964Hamster]

schon ein Komisches Gefühl das so zu sehn :/

[gegennazis100]

schon krass,.

R.I.P alle verstorbenen menschen!!