80 years after the liberation, on January 27, 1945, experts and curators are looking for the best way to preserve the site and its thousands of objects found after the war.
The cold is bitter and visitors struggle to advance between the barbed wire of Auschwitz. Equipped with an entry ticket for 24 euros, everyone was divided into a group, according to their language. The atmosphere is heavy, the snow is crunchy and we can see silhouettes bundled up in their down jackets as far as the eye can see. Behind the French-speaking guide, there are a woman and her daughter studying Erasmus in Warsaw, two Belgian tourists who are traveling around Europe, a father and a teenager driven by the urgency of « faire » Auschwitz ensemble. « Everyone has the big camp figures in mind ? 200 hectares, 155 barracks, a concentration camp where 200 000 people were interned, a killing center where nearly a million Jews were murdered »unrolls the guide into his microphone. During the four hours that the tour will last, the guide will repeat numbers several times that the group struggles to integrate, they are so overwhelmed. Auschwitz is a…
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