DPA
A Nazi death camp museum in Sobibor, eastern Poland, has been closed because it has not received enough funding from the regional government to remain open, the museum spokesman said Thursday.
‘Without money, the museum cannot function,’ museum spokesman Marek Bem told German Press Agency dpa.
Some 250,000 people, mostly Jews, were killed at the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibor, located in occupied Poland during World War II.
John Demjanjuk, sentenced last month to five years in prison as an accessory to more than 28,000 murders, was a guard at the camp. The Ukrainian-born 91-year-old was freed pending a possible appeal and was moved to a nursing home near Munich.
The museum requires some 1 million zloty (361,000 dollars) a year to keep running, but has only received some 420,000 zloty this year, reported the daily Rzeczpospolita.
The exhibits and tours cannot remain open because museum staff have been reduced by about half.
The facility was slated to become a state museum in 2012 and receive funding from the Ministry of Culture, but discussions with the ministry have not yet brought any results.
Some 20,000 people a year visit the memorial site.
Yes indeed we should remember that this was a death camp were our brother’s and sister’s were killd but why should we pay for a museum that half
of the money goes to the government that killed us
i think that people should get approval of atleast 20 of these survivors to make it a museum
the “commandment” to remember has nothing to do with commercializing a murder site.
I’m not against the site being maintained so that people can say kaddish there, or to memorialize the place so future generations won’t say it wasn’t there, but let’s not make itito a mitzva.
if you have money go run the place, if you don’t worry about more important tings
We are commanded to remember- with each passing year whatever is left should be remembered- not faded into the dust
what on earht are you talking about?!
Sobibor & the rest shud close & poland shud not make millions on the blood of jewd
Oyy so sad! I met the youngest survivor of Sobibor!!
COMPROMISE-COMPROMISE!!!