Michel Slomka's return to Birkenau: 'I'm faced with this square of emptiness, I'm faced with absence, with nothingness'
- Posted on January 26, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Michel Slomka's return to Birkenau: 'I'm faced with this square of emptiness, I'm faced with absence, with nothingness'
The great-grandson of a deportee, Michel Slomka first visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 2011. The Frenchman then returned three more times, driven by one question: How can we remember? His images reveal the void left by the millions of Jews exterminated by the Nazis.
