Deteriorations, Nazi salutes, hilarious group selfies: in Auschwitz, the difficult task of remembering in a “must” of tourism

It is true that the photographs, taken during commemorative events, often show the deserted Memorial, and the heads of state in the solitude of meditation. Difficult to imagine a dense crowd, shoulder to shoulder, in block 11, where the prisoners were tortured, or in front of the mountains of shoes and hair which bear witness to the horror of the extermination of 1.1 million women, children, men, 90% of whom are Jews.

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