Visiting sites of tragedy to touch history, ease grief
Why are people drawn to sites of inexplicable horror or tragedy?
"People need to confront the reality of a disaster," says Dr. Grace Bellotti, a Bronx-based psychiatrist with the New York University Department of Psychiatry. "It's so unbelievable they need to go and look for themselves.'"
For some, the journey is intensely personal. "It was unbearable," Holocaust survivor Sol Rosenkranz, 90, of New York City, says of his trip five years ago to the Treblinka concentration camp in Poland, where his mother, brother, two sisters and sister-in-law perished.
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"People need to confront the reality of a disaster," says Dr. Grace Bellotti, a Bronx-based psychiatrist with the New York University Department of Psychiatry. "It's so unbelievable they need to go and look for themselves.'"
For some, the journey is intensely personal. "It was unbearable," Holocaust survivor Sol Rosenkranz, 90, of New York City, says of his trip five years ago to the Treblinka concentration camp in Poland, where his mother, brother, two sisters and sister-in-law perished.