Microcosmos

[A Jewish artist discussing Płaszów as a cherished green area and a complicated microcosmos of functions and meanings for different groups of people.] “[...] one of the fascinating things about Plaszow and one of the complicated things about it was that it had become this very cherished green space for the local residents. And as an environmentalist and as someone who loves being in parks, I understand that. I understand and support people’s desire to enjoy that space as a green space and to go for walks and have picnics. And also, there’s this big thorny question of like how to adequately memorialize what occurred there. So it is a really complicated space that sort of pits human and ecological memory and human and ecological coexistence. How do these things, what’s the history, and what’s the future of these relationships? So, I mean, as complicated as it is, it’s such a rich microcosm of all these questions in one place.”