Our Foundation participated actively in the 70th anniversaryof liberation of Auschwitz – Birkenau complex, the dreadful “death machine”. As an act of solidarity along with everyone who wanted to commemorate International Holocaust Memory Day, we have marked our presence on the worldwide map of memory. In the early afternoon, the delegation of ourr Foundation placed flowers and lit a candle under the monument commemorating victims of Jawischowitz sub-camp, on the grave of victims from the “Death March” from Auschwitz on Brzeszcze cemetary, and finally under the sign of the building of former women penal company from Auschwitz in Budy/Bor.
Most of the people don’t see the whole picture of Auschwitz essence. During this year celebrations under the Death Gate of former sub-camp Birkenau in the speeches of the honorable guests we heard only one sentence treating about Monowitz sub-camp. The rest of the sub-camps, which also have been liberated, and from where people also were sent for a Death March, were not mentioned. It is our great quest for the future, to save from the dark oblivion which lasts over 70 years, places and people who have been held captive there, lived in gruesome conditions and died only for their humanity. We absolutely have to do anything possible to carry this burden, which we as Foundation have taken upon us. We want to show “in situ” the sub-camp remainings that are still able to be saved, so the next generations can come see them, and realize what Auschwitz really was. Education about the camp surroundings is one of our main goals.
One of the former prisoners, Mrs Zofia Posmysz who was along with 300 other survivors at he celebrations on 27th January 2015, said once about the outer female penal company in Budy in which she was held captive:
“IF AUSHCWITZ WAS HELL, THEN BUDY WAS ITS LOWEST RING.”
There is still much to do, but with accompany of State Museum Auschwitz – Birkenau under which patronage we oparate, many friends and collegues, and sometimes even complete strangers, average people with great understanding of the problem with educating next generations about Auschwitz we believe, that in just a few years the education about the sub-camps will be much more filled, and those places and their arifacts will not be forgotten. Everyone can place his brick in building that goal.
