Saving Auschwitz

Saving Auschwitz examines the present function of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Seventy years after its liberation, clashing historical approaches, evolving politics and personal agendas beg the questions: What is the role of Auschwitz? What vocation should it have? Today, as the last survivors disappear, new challenges and obstacles begin to emerge: the difficulty of preserving the site over time, the huge impact of a million and a half yearly visitors, “dark tourism,” encroaching urbanization and more. Could Auschwitz lose its true meaning, and risk disappearing altogether?