Those who are looking for a powerful experience, those looking to find closure or those seeking an understanding about the Holocaust should take the opportunity to visit one of the concentration camps still standing in Europe today. While an experience visiting a concentration might be heavily emotional, it allows many people the opportunity to ponder [...]

Concentration camps are not fun places to visit while on vacation.  They are interesting.  They are educational.  They are depressing.  They are not fun.  And I have now visited two of them since moving to Europe.  Gross-Rosen in Poland, and now Dachau in Germany. I was prepared this time.  I was prepared for the “ARBEIT [...]

Concentration camps, as a general rule, are not always at the top of the list when people are sight-seeing.  People do not like being reminded of certain historical events.  Especially events that, in the grand scheme of things, did not happen all that long ago. From an historical perspective though, concentration camps, offer a glimpse [...]

When I mentioned the Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany as a place to visit a few weeks back, some readers were surprised at the idea of visiting such a place while on holiday. And I can understand that it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but the chance to understand important parts of [...]