Memorialization

[Jewish descendant, educator and guide discussing the memorialization and people living in the area.] “I think it’s a big question around memorialization in Poland. I understand that people want to– if your family is from a place where they were all killed, you want to put a monument there, you want to have some commemoration there. But ideally, that commemoration is something that residents can also support, because you can put a monument there, but you don’t live there, you don’t have to see it every day. And people who live there do. It can be tricky or complicated, cause there’s also the feeling of guilt if you live in a space that’s memorialized as where something bad happened. But it still needs to be– I don’t like the idea of forcing memorialization onto people.”