Holocaust and the Ethics of Tourism: Memorial Places in Narrations of Responsibility

Dragana Stojanović

doi:10.2298/FID2203551S

Authors

Dragana Stojanović Singidunum University, Faculty of Media and Communications

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2203551S

Keywords:

Holocaust, tourism, ethics, memorials, remembrance, education

Abstract

The issue of Holocaust tourism might be a quite sensitive, but nevertheless very important topic in the domain of the Holocaust remembrance. As tourism is often associated with leisure activities, it is quite challenging to put tourism into darker contexts of history and death. Also, different people coming to the Holocaust-related places with different motives make the issue of designing educational tours even more complex. This paper will try to expose questions related to dark tourism, Holocaust tourism, auratic memorial places, and to discuss ethical approaches to the Holocaust memory in the beginning of the 21st century. The text argues for the tourist experience as a memorable and educational tool with an active transformational potential, which will turn the visitor into a witness who further contributes to survival of the legacy of the Holocaust in the future.

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