Memoria [EN] No. 26 (11/2019) | Page 19

of an authentic crime site, where many material traces have survived, such as the railway ramp, the road to the gas chambers, the location of the building with mass extermination equipment and the grave with the ashes of the victims. Accordingly, the museum's narrative is to be based on the reception of identified material remains and the existing landscape. The new exhibition is designed as a place documenting the history of the camp as well as a space for reflection and mourning, and its central point will house numerous memorabilia of the murdered found during archaeological works. Marta Śmietana and Monika Bednarek in the paper KL Plaszow Museum and Memorial: the assumptions of the commemoration scenario, discussed the post-war fate of the grounds of the former German concentration camp, attempts to restore memory and the concept of a comprehensive commemoration and establishment of the KL Plaszow Museum and Memorial as a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow.

On the other hand, the speech by Wojciech Śleszyński Sybir Memorial Museum. The Site-narrative-museum concerned the objectives of the created museum exhibition. According to the author, the exhibition aims to present the history of specific people and their accompanying experiences through selected exhibits. The goal of the museum is not only to preserve, but also to pass on to future generations the memory of the experiences of Siberia as a symbol of the Tsarist and Stalinist repressions, and to familiarise them with the history of the former eastern lands of the Second Republic of Poland.

Marcin Owsiński, in his paper Politics and Memory. The unveiling ceremony of the Monument to Struggle and Martyrdom at the former KL Stutthof camp on 12 May 1968, analysed the preparation process of the unveiling ceremony and the intentions of the organisers, stressing that on the one hand they were a manifestation of the revived regional memory (attended by several thousand former prisoners of the camp), and on the other hand they had a very clear political and propaganda aspect, because they were held in the shadow of the events of March 1968 and the international situation that prevailed at that time.