Digital Aphormisms

» Should Auschwitz be left to decay?

two differing opinions on what to do about Auschwitz.

Robert Jan Van Pelt believes that “It might be that we will agree that the best way to honour those who were murdered in the camp and those who survived is by sealing it from the world, allowing grass, roots and brambles to cover, undermine and finally efface that most unnatural creation of Man.”
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski believes that, “Auschwitz-Birkenau must forever remain an unhealed, burning wound, which wakes people up from moral lethargy and forces them to take responsibility for the fate of our world.”

I believe that we need to keep it open and keep it in the same condition that the liberators found it in, or as close to that as possible.  Letting this vestige of inhuman creation rot and be returned to nature is in a sense a slap in the face to survivors and to those who lost their lives within the barbed walls. 
I believe we need to keep it open for future generations to understand that if we let our moral defensives down, anything is possible and anything will be possible again, perhaps even more extreme than the destruction of hundreds of thousands of human beings.