I have mulled over this post for several weeks. There is no easy way to approach a history in a few words or a few photographs. Here is a list of influences that have matured for me during our walks of the old cities of Eastern Europe:
- Diary of Anne Frank
- Live performance of Fiddler on the Roof
- Friends erased in the Civil War of Angola
- Los Desaparecidos de Argentina
- Standing at Latin Bridge in Sarajevo in 2014
- And on and on
We stumbled upon the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas). Even not knowing at the time what the monument represented, the atmosphere generated by the stone slabs is powerful. Some of the pictures are touched by innocence, some by mystery. Regardless of the criticism and controversy of this monument, it creates a powerful atmosphere.
Continuing down Eastern Europe, we came upon other monuments that are found below.
The site of the Krakow Ghetto lies a few hundred meters from Schindler’s Factory.
A fifteen minute stroll from our place in Budapest brings us along the Shoes on the Bank of the Danube.
Misplaced Map Case 