The Importance Of Remembrance Of The Holocaust

If Auschwitz or other concentration or death camps were not maintained as museums, remembrance of the Holocaust would decrease at every generation. Someday soon there will be no more holocaust survivors alive. It will then be their children’s job to tell the story to future generations. The story is hard to believe and almost impossible to tell unless you experienced it, thus every new generation would tell the story a bit differently, the stories would become less organic and more like any book story. Without maintaining the museum sites we would lose all first hand memory of the events. Without the camps people wouldn't be able to truly invasion what happened during the holocaust and thus the remembrance would fade.

We do need to see and walk through the barracks, gas chambers and forests to remember everything that happened in those places. Many survivors are very good at telling stories, and of course many of those who listen to them are abel to understand and picture what happened. People may be able to paint pictures of the holocaust and of life in the camps in their minds, they may use photographs that they've seen of the camps and they may use descriptions from people that have been there. However, nothing is like being in those photographs and being able to experience everything …show more content…
If those locations are always around, then nothing will be able to cover up what happened and thus there will be no way to dispute the holocaust. They are also very important locations for jews around the world. The holocaust is was the largest modern struggle of Jews. It was an event that will affect the Jews for all time. Every jewish person has a right to go and visit sites that represent the struggle of their people, and one has the right to remove that from us. It wasn't our decision to build them or go to them but it should be our decision to keep them