Sered

Hello subscribers – and welcome new ones!

As I had half indicated in the previous Newsletter (from already a month ago – time flies!), I have now indeed added a new Blog post about Sered. More precisely: that’s a Holocaust Museum at the site of a former labour camp/concentration camp on the edge of the small Slovakian town of Sered.

I was quite impressed with it, so I composed a stand-alone photo-essay Blog post about this site. On my main website you can also find a full-length chapter about Sered with more information on how the Holocaust panned out in Slovakia (quite differently to other countries) and with more detailed descriptions of the museum, together with the usual info about practicalities. Do take a look both at the new Blog post and then, if you want to know more, at the website chapter about Sered.

The photo above does not feature in either the Blog post or the website chapter, but was also taken at Sered, namely in a part of the exhibition that was not yet open to the public but was still a work in progress. As the image involved the line “The dark story” but came with this “no entry” sign, I found it an ironic juxtaposition, as if it were saying “don’t go to the dark side”. But of course that’s what dark tourism is all about. And Sered is certainly a very dark site indeed.
  

What I still haven’t managed to do is the long-promised (e.g. here) Blog post about “Belfast and the Troubles”. I have, however, made good headway with Belfast in general and specifically West Belfast with four all-new chapters on my main website. Still outstanding is the chapter about East Belfast and everything for Derry/Londonderry. I hope I can get all that done before I travel to Taiwan in mid-December, but it’s probably not realistic, given I have to prepare – and pack – for that trip too. Packing for that trip will be very tricky, by the way, as temperatures are quite unpredictable this time of year in Taiwan. It could be anything between 5 and 30 degrees!
  

But so much for now. I’ll try to make sure to send out at least one more Newsletter before the end of the year!

Best wishes,

Peter