include guidance on addressing gaps and silences. It was, they came to realize, an issue they had come across before on a previous site visit. “Visiting one site improves our understanding of other sites,” Dr. Carr said.
It also sharpened their understanding of the role sites will play in the future in countering distortion and safeguarding the record of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma. “In the future,” Dr. Carr said, “when we can no longer depend on survivors to fill in the gaps, sites will bear a special responsibility to say what is left unsaid. Our duty today, as the guardians of these sites for our generation, is to make sure they are prepared to do so.”