Monatsarchive: Dezember 2019

The belfry is a UNESCO site. It really is impressive.

The bunker in Calais’s Parc Saint-Pierre is quite a bit more visible than the complex on Acacialaan in Antwerp. I was lucky enough to get to the Acacialaan museum the one weekend in the month it is open. Here the … Weiterlesen →

Closed for the winter. I will obviously have to come back to Calais next year.

Why yes, that is an astronaut with La Coupole reflected in his visor. Because … France? My visit already seemed pretty surreal, but this was just the start. The plaque announces that the height of a Saturn V is marked in stages on … Weiterlesen →

You can make out the lines of the blockhouse through the trees over the corrugated roof center left. The site is closed to visitors for the winter. The tone here, as at La Coupole, is quite different from Dutch sites, … Weiterlesen →

In July 1995, thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed along the „Trail of Life and Death“ which stretches from Srebrenica to Tuzla. „How long do you think it will take to gather all the remains from the trail“ … Weiterlesen →

Yet it is also important to realize that genocide and crimes against humanity described are potential acts of any nation. Everyone, wherever she or he may be, should be aware of the evil of which people are capable of perpetrating … Weiterlesen →

My terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. —Yosef H. Yerushalmi, Holocaust survivor, in The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar, (Berlin: Scalo, 1998), frontispiece.