Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Highlights
Forced Walks: Honouring Esther
This project retraced a Nazi Death March route, walking from Frome to Bath in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belsen, and completing the original route in Germany in 2016 on the 71st anniversary. The walks included remote participants who identified and adapted historic death march routes for contemporary commemoration, with documentation gathered for exhibition.
The periphery of Birkenau
On the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation, the author completed a walking circumnavigation of the Birkenau camp by navigating the surrounding area, as no road fully encircles the site. This walk, undertaken during a public closure with restricted access and significant security, was originally streamed live on Facebook and is now compiled into a single video.
Articles elsewhere
You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once
You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once.When I walked from my hotel the first time I had no idea what was hiding from me in plain view in the landscape. I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know that my hotel, the Polin, carried the Yiddish name for Oswiecim. I didn’t know… Continue reading You can only go to Auschwitz for the first time once →
Alone at A*
I was always alone at A* but I wanted to be a tour guide, to gather others around me and walk with them and tell them stories, to show them the edges, the hinterland, the connective tissue, the limina, the penumbric spaces.I wasn’t interested in the flora, I passed over it without seeing, without noticing.… Continue reading Alone at A* →