Nature

[Jewish descendant, educator and guide discussing the meditational potential of nature as opposed to institutionalized places like museums.] “It being a green space lets you have this sort of contemplation to it that a museum doesn’t really give you. Or that, like most sites of memory, don’t. It’s a green space, you get to think, you get to walk around, you get to look at something beautiful, but also moving. Nature can do that in a way that museums can’t. […] It’s crazy. It’s sort of rips you out of your daily life, without forcing you to have to walk around in mourning every day. It’s not like, sobbing the whole time. But it gives you this moment of reflection. And I think Plaszów being a park, and also having this monument, or having public knowledge about the site, and I think that’s the thing that needs to happen. The signage, like public information and public education, has to be better, and has to be in tandem with nature.”