At The Scene Of The Crime: The Bergen-Belsen Memorial

“Nothing about [the new Bergen-Belsen Memorial] dramatizes information for visitors the way, say, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington apparently feels it needs to. Divorced as it is from the sites of persecution, it turns relics of genocide like a Zyklon B canister and a cattle car that transported Jews to Auschwitz into props. Bergen-Belsen has the camp as evidence, or what’s left of it.”