A gloomy woodland of winter trees in Europe

Across Europe, a photographer retraces a haunting ‘pathway to genocide.’

Through 22 stories and 130 locations, an immersive project traces the ghosts of the Holocaust across Europe. It tells the stories of those who were there, and the places themselves—some of which risk being lost from memory.

France, 2016: Woods beyond the perimeter fence of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, located at 800 metres in the heavily forested Vosges mountains of Alsace. The camp was enclosed by 3-metre-high electrified barbed wire.

AT A GLANCE the photographs would appear to show any run-down backyard scene in Nondescript, Europe. A forest clearing. Damp-stained buildings with glowering, monochrome architecture. Concrete wastegrounds between tower blocks, the gray palate perhaps enlivened with a basketball hoop or a playset.  

Then the camera looks closer. The details: Strange grassed-over mounds between the trees. A once grand house neglected in a way that feels scornful, somehow. Fence creepers not quite obscuring bulletholes. Gritty soil that, at a close peer, isn't soil at all. 

Almost eight decades on from the German surrender at the end of World War II, living memory of the atrocities of the Holocaust are fading. In the minds of those

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