Experience, narrative, and meaning : encountering Bergen-Belsen -- The Rhine, the heath, the wire -- The distance of presence : inside seventy-two hours -- A camp on exhibit : workers, witnesses, visitors descend -- The impossible real : Bergen-Belsen in art and photography -- Padres, patients, and pathologies : medical and spiritual relief -- Conclusion : a past intensity
Summary
Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains