75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Survivors Urge World To Remember
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/798480937/75-years-after-auschwitz-liberation-survivors-urge-world-to-remember
Today, Auschwitz is a museum recalling the evil that humans are capable of inflicting on each other. Tour groups quietly shuffle from an exhibit holding 2 tons of hair shaved from the victims of the gas chambers to the gallows where the former commandant of Auschwitz was hanged after he was tried by a military tribunal in 1947.
Pawel Sawicki, a guide at the museum, has seen thousands of tourists come from all over the world. "Sometimes I think that when they leave a candle or a stone or they put the flower or they say a prayer and they leave the memorial, and they go back to their lives, they think: 'Our job is done. We remembered,' " he says. "But I think there should be a next step. People should look at this place and think about our moral responsibility.
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25611643? ago
Why would you keep two tons of hair around. Imagine having to shave the heads of hot sweaty prisoners and to people in charge say, hey don't dump the hair on the fields or burn it in one of our 200 incinerators. Perhaps we can find a spare room to store this LICE INFESTED (why do you think they saved their heads in the first place?) hair INSIDE the building with us / them? Why?
Literally if they had done anything expect store it inside the hair would be bleached and blown away or composted in the soil.
Also: My barber sweeps up hair every night. Is he a mass murderer?
25613927? ago
When things collapsed there shouldn't have been hair lying around.
However, if I was an efficient task master than deloused hair would be good for prisoner seats and pillows.
25616160? ago
This is an abhorrent thought.