Scrapbookpages.comAbout Us Scrapbookpages began in July 1998 with a series of color photographs, taken in May 1997 at the Memorial Site of 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. Scrapbookpages.com was the first web site which showed such places as Dachau, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt from a tourist's point of view.  The photo of Barracke X, shown at the top of the page, and the photo of the door into the Dachau gas chamber shown above were taken in May 1997 and were included on our original web site. The photo below was our first cover picture on the home page of our web site.  Over the years, scrapbookpages.com has grown to 1344 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." Our 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. 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 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. We also revisited the Eagle's Nest in May 2007 and took some new photos which we have put up, as well as some additional photos from our May 1997 trip. In May 2008, we visited Germany again and put up some new pages about the town of Geseke and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's Wewelsburg Castle near Paderborn. The scrapbookpages web site was created on a Macintosh computer, and it is best viewed on Apple's Safari web browser. HomeThis page was last updated on January 8, 2010 |