‘Sightseeing’ at Holocaust sites in Germany and Austria (Part 2)
As I said in the previous entry, my visit to my first concentration camp had been a somewhat anti-climatic experience for me. Perhaps in part because I had such high expectations about what I would feel on confronting these places I have read so much about over the years. We know so little about people’s […]
‘Sightseeing’ at Holocaust sites in Germany and Austria (Part 1)
I’m writing this two-part blog in-between my two fieldwork trips to Germany and Austria. Last week I got back from my visit to Munich in Bavaria, and Linz in Upper Austria, where I visited a number of Holocaust-related sites and memorials in the surrounding areas. At the end of this week I embark on the […]
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