‘Stumbling’ upon Berlin’s National Socialist past
Last week I returned from my second and (at the moment) final field trip of European Holocaust sites. Another gruelling itinerary and I returned home exhausted and in need of a break from Holocaust-related sites. I found that after visiting so many sites within the space of a month – reading so much atrocity-related material, […]
Remembering a difficult past
Next week I embark on a fieldwork trip to Bavaria and Austria, as part of ongoing research into memorialisation and the Holocaust, and in particular the concept of ‘dark tourism’ as it applies to sites of former concentration camps. I approach this trip with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. I’m not sure if ‘excitement’ […]
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