How do you narrate, create fiction, or simply document something long gone? Something we can not possibly have existential grasp of?
I went in, on the field, and observed for five days and the extermination camp as it is kept today: absorbed the atmosphere, listened to the people, let time pass over the hours of the days. Then, I gathered historical info, started to analyze what I saw, felt, heard and what I read.
Then, something happened…
This is an exercise in observation, it is also an EXPERIMENTAL WAY to learn about history and memory.
I can see it’s going to be a patchwork: the juxtaposition of words, images and thoughts in the process of making sense of what this place once was.
If you would like to read about it, listen, watch…enter.
There are several paged listed in three categories, pick one and start – every page is independent. No matter where you start from, you can make sense of the rest and build your own path of discovery.
Everything posted on this site is for educational purposes only; it is a trial on the possibility to use new media to stimulate research on history, and related topics.
Therefore, if you intend to use anything for commercial purposes you HAVE to let me know – so I can tell you where to find the material and pay royalties -.
DID YOU KNOW?
People who survived extreme traumatizing situations, or prolonged physical or psychological torture become genetically scarred. See for your self in this article:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2016824,00.html
