MICHAEL FRIDJHON: The big and the small poignantly tell the horror of Auschwitz-Birkenau
From piles of shoes to mind-numbing numbers, a visit to the most infamous Holocaust sites leaves terrible ghosts
02 October 2019 - 05:00
Before I set out recently on a trip to Europe, which included Krakow in Poland and a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a close friend wagged a forbidding finger, decrying what she called the fashion for atrocity tourism. I was a little surprised. Why do people go there?
If you know what happened at the extermination camps, there’s no need to be shocked out of the amnesia of the denialists, none of whom would hold the positions they do if they had ever been to Oswiecim...
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