2. Policies Regarding CREDIBILITY of the World Heritage List
2.2. Outstanding Universal Value
2.2.2. World Heritage criteria
2.2.2.2. Specific considerations related to criterion (vi)
Report of the Rapporteur, World Heritage Committee, Third Session, 1979
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J. Note 11 (iii) “In order to preserve its symbolic status as a monument to all the victims, Auschwitz should, it seems, remain in isolation. In other words, we recommend that it should stand alone among cultural properties as bearing witness to the depth of horror and of suffering, and the height of heroism, and that all other sites of the same nature be symbolized through it”.
Conclusions. “Sites representing the positive and negative sides of human history will only be invested with real force if we make the most remarkable into unique symbols, each one standing for the whole series of similar events”.
| Date year: | 1979 |
| Source: | CC-79/CONF.003/11 Principles and criteria for inclusion of properties on World Heritage List |
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