Krakow, Hamburg, media

Hello subscribers – and welcome new ones!
  

Yesterday I uploaded a new Blog post, this time about my trip to Krakow in January – so many of the photos are quite wintery, except those taken indoors, e.g. in the museum that the former Oskar Schindler factory has been turned into. Do go and take a look!

I’ve also finished an all-new chapter for Krakow on my main website, plus a couple of subchapters (e.g. Płaszow).
  

However, I now have to suspend work on the website as that is undergoing some technical maintenance work and software updates as well as a slight redesign. Only when all that is completed can I resume uploading to the website, so the coverage of Krakow’s other dark sites is unfortunately a bit incomplete there for now. But the brand-new Blog post can already give you a good overview!

Also please note that while the maintenance work on the website is ongoing there may be periods of time when not everything is working as it should. There’s always the risk of glitches and problems at such times. We hope to iron all such issues out asap, but in the meantime please bear with me …
  

In the previous DT Newsletter I mentioned the puzzle of the missing “Stolperstein” outside the address in Hamburg that I had found written on a suitcase on display at Auschwitz (as seen in the photo above). I’ve meanwhile found out some more details and I’ve added an update to the relevant Blog post from last month. In short: the person of that name does have a “Stolperstein” in Hamburg, but at a different address, namely where he had his last voluntary abode, before being evicted and sent to the house with the address that is seen on the suitcase. This was because at that time that house served as a collection point from where the first Jews were deported from Hamburg to Auschwitz. So it does make sense that he doesn’t have his “Stolperstein” at that address but rather outside his former proper home instead.
  

Not so long ago I did another interview with the media and this has meanwhile been worked into this article on Sky News – it was a podcast, I believe, but this is the written version. It’s perhaps in an unexpected place, but I find it quite good, short as it may be (as usual, only a tiny fraction of what I had to say eventually made it into the finished article). You may have to scroll down a little to get to the beginning of the relevant text.

Finally, I would also like to alert you to this piece by a fellow blogger that’s been published on the Novaya Gazeta Europe website. That’s the opposition newspaper/website that was shut down in its home country of Russia by the authorities, much like all free speech in the now full-on dictatorship Putin has subjected the country to … And as the piece makes clear the tragedy of all this often lies in the very personal. Do take a look.
  

So much for this time.
  

Best wishes,

Peter