All week I have been posting views of Schloss Blutenburg in its beauty. The weather has varied from sunny and ice-covered to amazing cloud cover to snow. But as I close this series, I focus on this memorial on the right, of which there is an identical one at Dachau Concentration Camp Museum. The Jewish prisoners of Nazis were walked along the Würm River from Dachau towards the Austrian border so that the inhumane treatment would not be discovered by the liberating allies. Of course, due to weakened conditions, many died or were killed along the way for being unable to continue to walk. As it turns out, it was the segregated Japanese-American troops that discovered them, covered in fresh snow, the irony being that their own families were interned in American camps in the US. Dachau is less than 10 km north of the Schloss Blutenburg, which sits on the banks of the Würm River. I first learned of this specific march while reading the amazing young adult novel, The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak. Also, the library and the organization meeting in Schloss Blutenburg all week were both founded by a Jewish woman who worked tirelessly for the children of Germany to have a better future.
This somber and cold photo seemed an appropriate ending to my Blutenburg series.
@maggiemae@graemestevens -- you two are fast! I accidentally hit add button before I wrote the narrative and by the time I posted it only minutes later, here your comments were!
I really like your composition and processing ... There were many such marches. We remember and at the same time displace ... On your capture is shown a beautiful view and THEY! They are going, they are dying, others are doing it and others are trying not to see it! And all of these are us.
Your black and white edit is perfect. So is your narrative, it changed my view of the scene completely. The memorial design is very moving. Has a book been written about the woman who founded the children’s library after the war?
This dreadful chapter in our history must be remembered in the hope that it will not be repeated. We visited Dachau several years ago and it was gut wrenching. I was also appalled at the disrespect that many people showed .
Nice processing for this sad monument. It’s important to remember and we fight for it, but as @haskar says many people are suffering also today in the indifference of the majority. Antisemitism and racism are back
A wonderful end to your beautiful series. I read the book and it really opened my eyes. Such a horrific situation for so many. Unfortunately Haskar and Caterina are right. We have many friends all over the world who are still suffering.
Your photo captures the essence of this memorial. There are others like it throughout Europe, serving as reminders that the tragedy of the Holocaust cannot be forgotten.
I need to read that book - Teenager has it on his shelf upstairs. This is a very striking image indeed. I hadn't realised the proximity of this Schloss to that area.
