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Conclusions

It wasn’t until we had returned to London a while that what we had seen and experienced really started to sink in; we had returned from, as Michael Berkowitz put it, a historical black hole. Despite the best efforts of those trying to memorialise the vanished world, the traces of the communities so vividly described by Peretz, Singer, et al. are disappearing like sand through our fingers.

These photographs were intended to form the basis of an exhibition about the Holocaust beyond Auschwitz. Unfortunately, funding was refused by every single organisation we approached. This on-line exhibition is intended to allow those with an interest to gain an impression of this former crucible of Jewish religion, politics and culture. Hopefully the tour will be established as a permanent component of Study at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish). Our fear is, though that we may be among the few who will ever share the experience.

Webpage compiled by Paul Hanson 2002. All photographs Paul Hanson. Not to be reproduced without author’s permission.

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