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My Auschwitz vacation

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Re: My Auschwitz vacation

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"people are no longer interested in the truth." Were they ever?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that quotation does not appear in the article text. The closest is:

“People don’t want to know the truth.”

Which is closer to your point about human nature.

Re: My Auschwitz vacation

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I read this with great interest. Although it feels like it's just sound bites of strange travel anecdotes, it somehow captures very well the complicated and self-contradictory relations between Poles and Jews. It does a good job of calling out quite a few of the pain points, somehow without overtly taking sides. All the more impressive since the author is not from a "third" nation (as I understand from the article, she is Jewish).

Mostly it captures well the multi-faceted nature of the relationship, without funneling the reader back to the one dimensional question of "who's the goodie".