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The green house at Sobibór
Read more: The green house at SobibórSobibór is a disquieting place, tethered in the present day to an evolving duty to commemorate the upwards of 180,000 Jewish people who were murdered here. My interest was captured by how unsettlingly close people currently lived to…
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Majdanek, and the weather
Read more: Majdanek, and the weatherThis place seems so entirely other as to be an impossibility. This should be an impossible place. It isn’t, though, right? It’s a well preserved place, yes, and it serves the role of standing in for countless places…
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“Here lies a human being”, Treblinka.
Read more: “Here lies a human being”, Treblinka.Treblinka was the first tour I went on where I saw the camps through the victims. This is strange, I know, but I’m trying for stark honesty in this blog. I have always centred victims in my reading,…