The following quote is from this news article: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4907032,00.html
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“Along with the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria, the barracks [at Auschwitz-Birkenau] bear witness to Nazi Germany’s killing of around 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, at this camp, which it built in 1940 in the southern city of Oswiecim [Auschwitz] after occupying Poland.”
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Current preservation work on a barracks building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
Why is this building being preserved? It is being preserved because it was once occupied by Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Anything connected to the history of the Jews is sacred and must be preserved, if possible.
Why were there acres and acres of brick buildings at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which were filled with Jews? Why were so many buildings needed when the Jews were allegedly being killed in gas chambers immediately upon arrival?
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The task is all the harder because these types of poorly constructed barracks have never been preserved before, according to the Auschwitz team.
“My colleagues in the building industry laughed when I told them what I was doing. They said it’d be easier to just tear down the wall and rebuild it brick by brick than to restore it the way we’re doing,” says Szymon Jancia, a construction expert at the site.
“We’re aware that people come here specifically to see authentic objects and buildings,” Cyrulik adds for her part.
Protected from the weather by tents 12 metres (39 feet) high, the two barracks under restoration number among the camp’s oldest.
Work on the barracks began in September 2015 and will continue for another couple of years, while the entire project will take more than a decade and cost millions of dollars.
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Who will pay for this restoration work? The Germans, of course.
I have photos of the barracks buildings on my website at https://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/Tour/Birkenau/Birkenau01A.html
You can see more photos of the Birkenau barracks on my website at https://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/Photos/Gallery12/index.html