A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films, memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
The works explore a process familiar to Jewish visitors to the death camps and the former homes of vanished loved ones: an ...
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Auschwitz in the era of dark tourism
On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular ...
Auschwitz survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since Nazi death camp's liberation
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...
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Dark Tourism: visiting Chernobyl, Auschwitz and other places with a tragic past
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Roslyn Dee: Visit to Auschwitz showed me how ‘dark tourism’ can be grimly enlightening
On the bus journey back to Krakow, nobody spoke. More than 50 adults, all sitting in silence, our heads and hearts completely overwhelmed by what we had just witnessed in Auschwitz. It’s almost 20 ...
The £40m cruise ship that's a dark tourism haven rotting feets away from popular beach
Cruise ship the MS World Discoverer ran aground in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific in 2000 near a golden sandy beach ...
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A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
In “Dark Tourism, the Holocaust ... Dunham goes for bittersweet comedy before the inevitable visit to Auschwitz and her father’s stolen home. The humor could be a distinctly Jewish response ...
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Roslyn Dee: Visit to Auschwitz showed me how ‘dark tourism’ can be grimly enlightening
As the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is commemorated this weekend, my own visit raises important questions for me: when is so-called dark tourism too dark? And is respect too ...