More than one million people lost their lives at Auschwitz (Curry), making it a core factor in the Holocaust. Auschwitz, located in Oswiecim, Poland (Gera), was a main death camp from 1940 through 1945, when it was liberated by Soviet soldiers (Curry). Currently, Auschwitz resides as a museum and memorial, but is deteriorating and growing frailer every year (Gera). The museum director, Piotr Cywinski, wants to preserve Auschwitz, even calling it the most crucial conservation project since the end of the war (Curry). But Robert Jan van Pelt, a cultural historian, believes that people should forget about the Birkenau site and let it disintegrate completely (Curry). Therefore, the Auschwitz camp needs to be restored.
First of all, future generations need to see Auschwitz in person. At nearly seventy years old, Auschwitz is weakening every day (Gera), giving children less of a chance to see it. Not only will it educate children and teenagers about World War II and the Holocaust, but it allows them to experience the place where tragic events occurred. Since the last survivors are getting older, kids soon won’t have an opportunity to hear about firsthand. But if people preserve Auschwitz, children who were raised on TV get to see and feel the real thing (Curry). Instead of listening to the survivors who will soon pass, they’ll be …show more content…
To demonstrate, the Auschwitz museum contains gas chambers where the majority of Jews were massacred (Curry). Even though visitors will never know what the Jews felt, they can still get an impression. Equally included in the museum are electric fences and original brick barracks (Gera). Likewise with twisted eyeglasses and loose hair (Gera). Perceiving those artifacts might instill fear in these guests, therefore giving them a glance of what victims witnessed. Ultimately, preserving Auschwitz allows visitors to have a peek at what took
First of all, future generations need to see Auschwitz in person. At nearly seventy years old, Auschwitz is weakening every day (Gera), giving children less of a chance to see it. Not only will it educate children and teenagers about World War II and the Holocaust, but it allows them to experience the place where tragic events occurred. Since the last survivors are getting older, kids soon won’t have an opportunity to hear about firsthand. But if people preserve Auschwitz, children who were raised on TV get to see and feel the real thing (Curry). Instead of listening to the survivors who will soon pass, they’ll be …show more content…
To demonstrate, the Auschwitz museum contains gas chambers where the majority of Jews were massacred (Curry). Even though visitors will never know what the Jews felt, they can still get an impression. Equally included in the museum are electric fences and original brick barracks (Gera). Likewise with twisted eyeglasses and loose hair (Gera). Perceiving those artifacts might instill fear in these guests, therefore giving them a glance of what victims witnessed. Ultimately, preserving Auschwitz allows visitors to have a peek at what took