Tourists versus pilgrims: dichotomy of visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau

• Derek Dalton ^[1]
  1. [1] Flinders University

     Flinders University

     Australia

     
• Localización: Pilgrims: Values and identities / Darius Liutikas (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 9781789245653, págs. 201-211
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter explores how a recent upsurge in tourism at Auschwitz-Birkenau has produced a problematic and unhelpful distinction between two types of visitors to the site that supposedly sit at distinct ends of the ethical spectrum of worthiness. The 'pilgrim' and the 'tourist' are the two archetypes produced in academic and media discussion about visitations to the former camp, now a memorial museum.