About

Landscapes of the Holocaust is a Study Abroad course offered at Old Dominion University during summer session 2019 and overseen by Dr. Annette Finley-Croswhite (history) and Dr. Thomas Chapman (geography).  The travel component of the course takes place between May 12 and May 24, 2019. 

Old Dominion University students will travel to Poland to investigate the Holocaust in and around the Polish cities of Kraków, Oświęcim (where Auschwitz is located) and Warsaw, where they will explore these places of Holocaust memory and examine how historical geographies of the Holocaust are remembered and memorialized.

Major themes: Historical Geography, Landscapes of Memory, Dark Tourism; History and Politics of Memory