Bergamo DH: Chiara - Genocides Dashboard
Description
Individual final project in summer 2022 Digital Humanities (DH) course at University of Bergamo.
The goal of my project is to carry out a reconnaissance on one of the darkest themes of history (past and present): that of genocide.
After a survey of the Shoah, to which we are dedicating the Day of Remembrance nowadays (27th January), the word will pass to the critical comments of some philosophers (Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Emmanuel Lévinas); finally, there will be an autobiographical account of a visit to the Terezin concentration camp.
The term "genocide" refers to violent crimes committed against certain groups of individuals with the intent of destroying them.In 1944, a Polish Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), tried to describe the Nazi policies of systematic extermination which also included the destruction of European Jews, coining the word "genocide" combining the prefix geno-, from the Greek "race" or "tribe", with the suffix -cidio, from the Latin "to kill". In proposing this new term, Lemkin had in mind "The set of actions designed and coordinated for the destruction of the essential aspects of the life of certain ethnic groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves".
Terezin
I was a child three years ago.
Then I dreamed of other worlds. ❀
(Hanus Hachenburg)
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When I was 14 I had the opportunity to visit the Czech Republic for three days in middle school. Over the days I have had the opportunity to learn a lot about the Jewish community and the work of the Nazis in the State.
One day we visited the city of Terezin, with particular attention to the Theresienstadt concentration camp: it was an experience that required a lot of strength, sensitivity and respect, as you feel very strong emotions.
Built between 1780 and 1790, it was born as a fortress-city at the behest of Joseph II of Habsburg-Lorraine; during the First World War, Gavrilo Princip, killer of Archduke Francesco Ferdinando, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was imprisoned in the small fortress and died there.
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