Dimensions
153 x 234 x 19mm
Timothy Ryback first came to Dachau in 1992 on assignment from the New Yorker. He wanted to know how the older generation dealt with a past they knew first-hand, and how the younger generations lived life under its shadow.
Ryback's first impression was that Dachau's residents were small-minded and self-pitying, but he left the town unsettled by his own summary conclusions. When he returned to Dachau, Ryback's attentions shifted to Martin Zaidenstadt, a man who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor. In this complicated and troubled man, Ryback found a living symbol of the paradox that is Dachau - a place so imbued with death that it has become impossible for anyone who resides there to live a normal life.
