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- At this point, what do you feel the purpose(s) of concentration camp
visits are?
I think it's important for individuals to visit these camps to
realize the gravity of the situation. I think movies and novels can only
evoke so much feeling. A tale told through the voice of another individual
is not as thought-provoking as actually visiting the sites of persecution.
I feel it is important to develop your own thoughts about the
situation--based on historical fact, of course. It's important to have your
own reaction rather than a reaction to someone else's reaction.
-How do you feel our visit to Buchenwald compared to our visits of
Holocaust memorials in Berlin? What are the differences between a camp and
memorials?
Personally, I feel that the one visit to Buchenwald did so much more
for me than all the Holocaust memorials we've visited in Berlin. The
memorials didn't particularly affect me that much. The memorials at
Schöneberg were the most compelling to me, but the other memorials
only affected me somehow because I knew that I should somehow be affected
by this statue or plaque. Camps are important because they are preserving
a part of history and preserving a memory. Memorials seem to be forcing
emotion. >>
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