Krakow to Sachsenhausen: from Galician ghetto to model concentration camp in Oranienburg, memorial spaces to the victims are partially archived in their original state. Chairs in the wartime deportation point of Podgorze symbolise the absence of bodies, while "former" is the generic keyword to describe the erasure of Jews from Krakow following their deportation to Belzec and Auschwitz. Crowds and congregation.
Contrary to this intimacy is Sachsenhausen, a model camp in a sprawling suburban memorial site. Neighbours and knowledge. It is disturbingly clinical and experiential in its presentation of the past. The preservation of execution trenches and pathology rooms invites entry into the after life of Nazi persecution.
