andyt andyt:
Yep, I saw that. I very much doubt tho that going there will stop the bad dreams, as she was hoping. Something like that stays with you forever.
Very true.
andyt andyt:
I got to wondering about the barbed wire - surely replaced after 70 years? So are they maintaining the place forever? Seems a bit ghoulish. keep it as a rememberance, but maybe consider allowing it to decay as time goes on, at least once the last survivor is no more. Can you think of other sites where places of horror are carefully maintained?
Yes, it may be ghoulish, but even today we see people who want to cast doubt on the events surrounding the Holocaust, and even the Holodomor. If they can whittle away at the edges, perhaps one day they can succeed on erasing the event completely.
The only way to ensure that doesn't happen is to preserve the sites in as much detail as possible. Perhaps that's a 'point in time' preservation, or perhaps that's an untouched and authentic method - letting it age naturally. I'm not going to decide which, it's up to the curators to decide that.
But there are places where 'horror' has been maintained. Flanders Fields, High School S-21 in Cambodia, even the acres of land that are 6 feet deep in human ash from the concentration camp furnaces are preserved, 'as is'. It's ghoulish, but it's also part of who we are, and why we do things a certain way.
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