Scrapbookpages.comAbout Us Scrapbookpages began in 1998 with a series of color photographs of the Memorial Site at the former concentration camp in Dachau. At that time, it was one of the first web sites which featured photographs of Dachau as it looks now. Before Holocaust Tourism became popular, scrapbookpages.com was the only web site which was devoted to showing such places as Dachau, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt from a tourist's point of view.  The photograph of Baracke X, shown at the top of the page, and the photo above were taken on a visit to Dachau in May 1997. Barracke X is where the gas chamber is located. The photo below was our first cover picture on the home page of our web site.  Over the years, scrapbookpages.com has grown to 1307 pages and over 5,000 photographs. This web site is designed for travelers who are interested in history. Despite the name scrapbookpages, it has nothing to do with "scrapbooking." The web site is not connected with any organization and has no political agenda. Our purpose is to provide information to tourists about what to expect at places of historical interest which they are planning to visit, and to give virtual tours for armchair travelers. Students have used our web site as a source of information and photographs for school reports. Our pages are also of interest to veterans of World War II and people who lived through the war years. We strive to put historical facts into context and to illustrate our pages so as to give our readers the feeling of being there. In the last few years, we have done some investigative journalism regarding events that happened over 60 years ago. For example, these articles: Women British SOE agents allegedly executed at Dachau Women British SOE agents allegedly executed at Natzweiler-Struthof Massacre of 1016 concentration camp prisoners at Gardelegen Some of the old photographs on our web site were contributed by our readers; we welcome such contributions and will gladly add them to our web site. The photos in the sections about Neuengamme, Chelmno, Belzec, and Sobibor were all contributed by others. We have also received information from some of our readers regarding mistakes that we had made, and we have corrected the errors. We appreciate comments and suggestions on how to improve our site. We strive to update our pages frequently and to add new material. In 2004, we added new pages about Oradour-sur-Glane and Natzweiler-Struthof. In 2005 we updated our pages about Auschwitz-Birkenau with lots of new photos taken on our second trip to Poland. Last year, we visited Rothenburg ob der Tauber and added lots photos of the city. In May 2007, we visited Dachau again and got some new photos of the changes to the Memorial site since our last visit there in 2003. Home |