Memoria [EN] No. 23 (08/2019) | Page 9

The Museum Director closed his presentation by highlighting the three pillars on which the Auschwitz Museum aims to operate: ‘Remembrance,’ ‘Awareness’ and ‘Responsibility’. Remembrance and awareness, he suggested, do not seem to be a problem in contemporary society; responsibility, however, is something that is still clearly lacking, hence the world’s indifference to the plight of the Rohingya and others. Bearing these three fundamentals in mind, he added, we have to try and “introduce some moral distress” and show people why they should be concerned about what is happening in the world. “If mass murders can occur and people can turn a blind eye, then something is very wrong,” Cywiński concluded. “We all have to tackle this issue.”