Przestrzenie Zagłady w perspektywie ekologiczno-nekrologicznej
Post-Holocaust Spaces in an Ecological-Necrological Perspective

Summary/Abstract: This article seeks to reconceptualize the current condition of post-Holocaust spaces from an ecological-necrological perspective. This approach is informed by ethical concerns related to the proper treatment of the dead body and human remains as well as the maintenance of burial sites. The author is using insights offered by taphonomy and the ecology of decomposition. An eco-necro perspective also allows to return to the marginalized (and forgotten) idea of death as a form of life understood in a biological sense. The graves and burial sites are considered as specific ecosystems full of complex life processes. Thus, the article claims, an ecological approach should become a necessary element in the management of the spaces of the death camps and especially of their conservation and might help to preserve the sacredness of these sites.

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