Written for the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics Journalism 2013 website.
There is a marigold-yellow house with a red clay tile roof across from where we are standing. There are two baskets of flowers turning in the wind, hanging from the porch, with doors looking out across the road to where we stand.
There is a small child’s wooden playhouse, and nearby there is a wooden play structure, like a watchtower, in this yard across the street.
We could be in any suburb, but this one is just a stone’s throw from the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We’ve come here for an ethics fellowship, but we wonder who would choose to live in the shadow of one of the most notorious killing fields in the world... Read the rest of this Daily Dispatch from Auschwitz-Birkenau.From May 26 until June 6, 2013 I took part in a study of journalism ethics through the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. Graduate students in Journalism and law met in New York, Germany and Poland to discuss ethical dilemmas in our professions during the Holocaust and the changing landscape of ethics today.