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-What are your expectations of the visit to Buchenwald, i.e. what do
you, personally, hope to learn from, or perhaps come to terms with during the visit? How do you think you will react (emotionally or otherwise) while you are at the camp?
I wouldn't know. I just hope I am not gonna have nightmares. I remember
visiting the Nagasaki museum when I went to Japan, and having nightmares
the whole night because I saw these terrible pictures of burnt out
people from the atomic bomb. I was 10 at the time, and I hope I'll be
able to "digest" better pictures of human misery.
-What things, specifically, do you think are influencing your various
expectations--for example, books, courses, friends, etc.? Do you ever feel like you "should" feel or think certain things about going to a concentration camp? What? Why?
Well, definitely books. I saw pictures of concentration camps, and read
a lot about them. I don't think I should feel or think any particular
things. All the stuff I wrote above is my personal reaction to these
kinds of things. I guess the Nagasaki museum is more or less the same
experience.
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