OSWIECIM (Poland), Jan 19 — Barbed wire lines the road to work for Pawel Sawicki, deputy spokesman of the Auschwitz museum at the site of the former Nazi death camp that was...
Surviving Auschwitz: For museum staff, former Nazi death camp a daily reminder of genocide, and a monument to life’s meaning
Around 850 people work at the museum to preserve their memory, a job with more emotional baggage than your usual nine-to-five. To cope with the heavy emotional toll of working at Auschwitz, Sawicki said he has put up “a sort of professional barrier” that keeps him sane, even if it cracks from time to time.Jacek Paluch, a longtime Auschwitz tour guide, said he makes sure to leave his “work at work” to avoid going crazy.
“His whole life, he never spoke a word to his family about what had happened here. Then, suddenly, at one Sunday breakfast, he began to talk,” Paluch said. Wanda Witek-Malicka, a historian at the museum’s research centre, had for years focused on child inmates of Auschwitz. But she had to abandon the difficult subject when she became a mother.
He recalled his anger early on – he has worked at the museum for 17 years – when he had to conserve objects that had belonged to the Nazis.
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