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My Auschwitz Vacation, by Tanya Gold

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We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure A tour group at the Auschwitz-­Birkenau State Museum in Oświȩcim. All photographs from Poland, July 2024, by Rafał Milach for Harper’s Magazine © The artist/Magnum Photos K azimierz is the Jewish quarter of Kraków, in southern Poland. You might know it from Schindler’s List, which was filmed here and has given the district a nickname: Jewrassic Park. The remains of a pastiche of the Płaszów concentration camp, built for the movie, are in a limestone quarry nearby. YouTubers record themselves there, staring at pieces of barbed wire. It’s odd that Steven Spielberg felt the need to dump another concentration camp on Poland. Perhaps it is an expression of control. These days, people like to say “Never Again for Anyone.” It’s an amendment to the oath “Never Again,” which was first used by liberated inmates in Buchenwald and later by the far-right rabbi Meir Kahane. I’m not sure people are particularly dedicated to

September 2024 Issue [Letter from Poland] My Auschwitz Vacation Adjust Share On Holocaust tourism by Tanya Gold , A tour group at the Auschwitz-­Birkenau State Museum in Oświȩcim. All photographs from Poland, July 2024, by Rafał Milach for Harper’s Magazine © The artist/Magnum Photos Kazimierz is the Jewish quarter of Kraków, in southern Poland. You might know it from Schindler’s List, which was filmed here and has given the district a nickname: Jewrassic Park. The remains of a pastiche of the P?aszów concentration camp, built for the movie, are in a limestone quarry nearby. You

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