{"id":19691,"date":"2017-08-22T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=19691"},"modified":"2017-08-22T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T20:30:13","slug":"why-tourists-go-to-sites-associated-with-death-and-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2017\/08\/why-tourists-go-to-sites-associated-with-death-and-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Why tourists go to sites associated with death and suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O<\/span>n a beautiful summer day in 2016, as I walked with a group of college students along a well-trodden path sprinkled with needles and cones from majestic pine trees, our mood was somber and morose. The chirping of birds and the burning off of the dew on the grassy hills by the rising sun in this idyllic setting did not help either.<\/p>\n

We were cognizant of what had happened here not too long ago.\u00a0This place \u2013\u00a0the Ponar Forest<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 is the site where 72,000 Jewish men, women and children from Lithuania\u2019s capital, Vilnius, and nearby villages were massacred by the Nazis and their collaborators.<\/p>\n

This is an excerpt from an article first published by The Conservation.\u00a0<\/em>Read the original article here:\u00a0Why tourists go to sites associated with death and suffering.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Daniel B. Bitran is an educator of the Holocaust, and his travel course takes students through Central Europe to a number of Holocaust sites. The aim is to provide students with a hands-on learning experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":19692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,534],"tags":[234,2111,1696,2113,2110,2114,2112],"yoast_head":"\nWhy tourists go to sites associated with death and suffering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Daniel B. 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