One of the places I've promised myself I will visit is the concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. They have a virtual tour, which I highly recommend, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum has exhibits which tell the story of the camp.
From what I understand, a visit to Auschwitz is an amazingly moving experience. But imagine how powerful the addition of a locative media presentation would be, with video commentaries by survivors and liberators (it's largely too late to shoot such video now, although there is probably extant footage that could be used) placed at various places throughout the camp. There may even be funding dollars available if someone wanted to write the grant proposal.
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I was there in 1997. Also, visiting a Genocide site in Rwanda made great impact on me.
I am thinking about making a trip to visit Auschwitz someday as well. There are hundreds of villages in my home country that were completely wiped out from the face of the Earth, and very soon the last witnesses of that will be gone, so there is a possibility that the young people will no longer know what was there before. It is a very timely and important idea.
-- Yana
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