Grief Tourism

Travel to areas affected by natural disasters, places where people were murdered, etc.

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Auschwitz: A Grim Reminder of the Holocaust

13th June 2006

Auschwitz, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, Poland, was a complex of three concentration camps, Auschwitz I for death, II for slave labor, and III for transport.  It was the scene of one of the world’s greatest tragedies, the mass genocide of over one million Poles, European Jews, and Roma people (the gypsies) in the darkest […]

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