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A Study on Commemorative Landscape in Holocaust Concentration Camp Memorials of Germany and Poland

홀로코스트 강제수용소 메모리얼에 나타난 기념적 경관

  • 이상석 (서울시립대학교 조경학과)
  • Received : 2017.09.20
  • Accepted : 2017.12.17
  • Published : 2017.12.31

Abstract

This study analyzed the commemorative landscapes of eight Holocaust concentration camp memorials(HCCM) of Germany and Poland from a landscape architecture point of view including historical landscape, places and remains, and monuments. A site survey was conducted at Dahau concentration camp memorial(CCM) and Bergen-Belsen CCM of Germany in September of 2015 and the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp memorial(ECM), Majdanek ECM, Belzec ECM, Sobibor ECM, Treblinka ECM, Chelmno ECM of Poland in April of 2016. The results are as follows. First, the landscape of the concentration camp at Dahau CCM, Auschwitz ECM, and Majdanek ECM liberated by the Allied Forces was well conserved with the maintenance of camp facilities and the spatial structure of camps while monuments and memorials seized by sociopolitical argument were built with restriction. But Belzec ECM, Sobibor ECM, Treblinka ECM, and Chelmno ECM devastated and planted artificially to forest were overwhelmingly surrounded with natural landscape, and also, excavated relics and remains were preserved and the monuments were built at the place of memory. Second, gas chambers, crematoriums, guard posts, electric wire fences, railroads and ramps, barracks, and drainage ditches were considered to be typical facilities present in the camp structure and the gas chambers, crematoriums, human ashes, and mass graves demonstrated the horrible history of these camps and the railroad and ramp where Jewish prisoners arrived also had the strong sense of place. These remains were regarded as symbolic elements to create a memory of the tragedy and place. Third, commemoration of victims was applied as the basic concept and recalling the memory of the Holocaust was also considered very important content. Religious reconciliation and peace was represented at Dahau CCM and the Jewish identity was strongly expressed at Treblinka ECM and Belzec ECM representing the Jewish community and Judaism. Fourth, the monuments with semi-abstract styles and abstract sculptures represented the Holocaust symbolically and narratively and came into the conflict caused by the abstractness to the memorial landscape at Auschwitz-Birkenau ECM and Bergen-Belsen CCM. Fifth, remains for recalling the memory of tragedy and place and symbolic monuments to stand for public memory were juxtaposed at the same place and preserving on the authenticity of camp site had been conflicted with monumentalizing intentionally. Further study will required a concrete investigation of the monuments in the HCCM and an attempt to comparatively study the commemoration characteristics of memorials in Korea.

본 연구에서는 홀로코스트 강제수용소 메모리얼을 대상으로 하여 역사적 경관의 특성, 장소 및 유적의 특성, 그리고 기념적 모뉴멘트의 특성을 분석하고, 이를 통해 홀로코스트 메모리얼의 기념적 경관에 나타난 의미를 규명하였다. 연구대상은 폴란드에 있는 아우슈비츠-비르케나우 절멸수용소 메모리얼, 마이다네크 절멸수용소 메모리얼, 벨젝 절멸수용소 메모리얼, 소비보르 절멸수용소 메모리얼, 트레블링카 절멸수용소 메모리얼, 헤움노 절멸수용소 메모리얼 6개소와 독일에 있는 다하우 강제수용소 메모리얼 및 베르겐-벨젠 강제수용소 메모리얼 2개소를 포함하여 전체 8개소를 연구 대상지로 선정하였다. 2015년 9월 1일부터 9월 15일까지 독일에 있는 홀로코스트 메모리얼을 대상으로 1차 현지조사와 2016년 4월 19일부터 4월 28일까지 폴란드에 있는 절멸수용소 메모리얼에 대한 2차 현지조사를 시행하였으며, 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 다하우, 아우슈비츠, 마이다네크 수용소 메모리얼에서는 미국이나 러시아 등 연합군에 의해 수용소 시설 및 공간 구조가 유지된 상태로 해방되었기 때문에 수용소 경관을 잘 보여주고 있으며, 정치사회적 담론을 유발했던 모뉴멘트와 메모리얼이 제한적으로 설치되었다. 그러나 벨젝, 소비보르, 트레블링카, 헤움노 수용소 등 절멸수용소에서는 시설이 완전히 파괴된 후 인공적으로 조림이 되었기 때문에 자연경관이 지배적이었으며, 발굴된 유해와 유적을 보호하고, 기억의 장소에 모뉴멘트를 세웠다. 둘째, 가스실 및 화장장, 유해 및 공동묘지, 경비초소 및 전기울타리, 철로 및 램프, 수용소 막사, 배수로는 수용소 구조를 나타내는 대표적인 시설로 나타났다. 특히, 가스실 및 화장장과 수용소에 버려진 유해 및 대규모 공동묘지는 수용소의 참혹한 역사를 잘 나타내고 있고, 수감자들이 이송되어 도착한 철로 및 램프도 강한 장소적 의미를 갖고 있었다. 이러한 수용소 유적은 폐허 속에서 사건과 장소의 기억을 강하게 불러일으키는 상징적 요소가 되었다. 셋째, 기념의 내용에 있어서는 희생자를 추모하는 것을 기본으로 하여 홀로코스트의 기억을 되살리기 위해 노력하였다. 특징적으로 다하우 수용소 메모리얼에서는 종교적 화해와 평화를 나타내었으며, 트레블링카 및 벨젝 수용소 메모리얼에서는 유대인 공동체와 유대교에 근거하여 집단적 정체성을 강하게 나타내었다. 넷째, 모뉴멘트는 반추상 및 추상적 조각이나 상징적이고 은유적으로 홀로코스트를 표현하였으며, 아우슈비츠-비르케나우 수용소 메모리얼과 베르겐-벨젠 수용소 메모리얼에서는 지나친 추상성이나 기억의 경관을 훼손한다는 문제로 심각한 갈등을 빚기도 하였다. 다섯째, 사건 및 장소적 기억을 만들어내는 수용소 유적과 홀로코스트에 대한 공공의 기억을 위한 상징적 모뉴멘트가 병치되어 있으며, 이러한 관계에서 홀로코스트 사건 및 장소를 기억하며 수용소 부지의 진정성을 살리는 것과 사건을 의도적으로 기념하기 위한 시도가 대립되었다. 본 연구는 독일과 폴란드에 있는 대표적인 홀로코스트 강제수용소 메모리얼을 대상으로 연구를 진행함으로서 메모리얼을 구성하는 다양한 기념물에 대한 심층적 분석을 못하였다는 한계를 갖고 있으며, 우리나라의 기념공간에 나타난 기념적 경관에 대한 비교 분석이 미흡하므로 이에 대한 후속 연구가 필요하다.

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