Disciplines
Nonfiction
Publication Date
2014
Document Type
Reflection
DOI
10.25778/y6bx-8342
Abstract
I don't believe in ghosts, but I've never felt more haunted than I did the day we visited Auschwitz. There is so much to try to explain that I don't know where to begin. The whole way there was a long, stomach-churning journey. Our tour guide switched on a movie in the tour bus on the way there, and I am certain not many of us watched it. We had already studied the Holocaust, and we did not want to look at gut-wrenching pictures of victims taken in the place we were about to visit. Arriving in the parking lot was like walking in to a horror film, all the buildings so familiar from the pictures and movies and documentaries we and seen all our lives, and especially those we had studied in our pre-trip classes and research. As they loomed right in front of me, I could not do anything but look away.
Recommended Citation
Clark, Ciara
(2014)
"Remembering Auschwitz-Birkenau: "Ghostly Presence","
OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 2, Article 8.
DOI: 10.25778/y6bx-8342
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ourj/vol2/iss1/8
