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During my year abroad in Bremen, Germany I decided to use my Engage the World grant to research how different countries memorialize the Holocaust. I visited memorials and former concentration camps in the Netherlands, France, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, England and Germany. Through my project I was able to observe first-hand how different cultures have absorbed the tragedy of the Holocaust and how they have chosen to represent their experiences to the public. Contrasting the atmospheres of the Jewish Quarter in Prague to the “Sound of Music” tours in Salzburg and to the museum at Mauthausen concentration camp allowed me to see how each of these societies had chosen to cope (or not cope) with their roles in this tragedy. My project directly related to a class I am currently taking at Dickinson on memory and the Holocaust as well as to my thesis research on freedom of speech in Germany today.
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Jewish cemetary in Prague.
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