dachau

The author discusses his visits to contemporary Dachau where he traveled in an attempt to discover how the people of the town live with the memories and the legacy of the death camp, and tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, an eighty-seven-year-old Holocaust survivor who, for years, has kept a daily vigil at the camp's crematorium.

The author discusses his visits to contemporary Dachau where he traveled in an attempt to discover how the people of the town live with the memories and the legacy of the death camp, and tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, an eighty-seven-year-old Holocaust survivor who, for years, has kept a daily vigil at the camp's crematorium.

Examines the history of Dachau, Germany, from 1890 to 2000, discussing the uses of its most infamous landmark--the concentration camp--after World War II, which included years as a prison and a residential neighborhood before it was turned into a memorial site and museum.