Remembering Catastrope: The Nazi Camps Today

Remembering Catastrophe:
The Nazi Camps Today

Since the liberation of the Nazi camps in 1945, films and photographs have played a major role in shaping our understanding of the Holocaust. During the summer of 2000 I visited eleven former Nazi camps and took hundreds digital photographs. Pictures of the camps and memorials as they exist today provide us with two very different kinds of information. In the case of camps with extant structures, we are able to visualize more accurately the means of control and destruction devised by the Nazis. Camps that are primarily memorial sites, on the other hand, illustrate both the poignancy and the politics of memory. The captioned images on each camp page were part of an exhibition of prints displayed at Berea College's Hutchins Library from January 1 through February 15, 2001.

Steve Gowler

Please click on the blue underlined camp links for more pictures and information.

Acknowledgements: I would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for financial, technical, aesthetic, and moral support before, during, and after my trip to the sites of destruction. Berea College, the World Affairs Council of Cincinnati, Rebekah Gowler, Ying-Chen Milbraith, Themules Holt, Chris Miller, Alan Mills, and Al Perkins. The Berea College Teaching Learning Technology Initiative was funded by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund.