Killing Sites

Author : Thomas Lutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783863312336
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Sites written by Thomas Lutz and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than 2,000,000 Jews were killed by shooting during the Holocaust at several thousand mass killing sites across Europe. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) aims to raise awareness of this centrally important aspect of the Holocaust by bringing together organizations and individuals dealing with the subject. This publication is the first relatively comprehensive and up-to-date anthology on the topic that reflects both the research and the fieldwork on the killing sites."--Back cover.

Author : Brigitte Sion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857421074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Tourism written by Brigitte Sion and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Conference 'Death/Dark/Thanatourism' at New York University in April 2010.

Author : Martin Winstone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350332038
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holocaust Sites of Europe written by Martin Winstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust is the gravest crime in recorded history. In order to try and better understand the true significance of the Holocaust, as well as its scale and magnitude, millions of people each year now travel to the former camps, ghettos and other settings for the atrocities. The Holocaust Sites of Europe offers the first comprehensive guide to these sites, including much practical information as well as the historical context. This book is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to add another layer to their understanding of the Holocaust by visiting these important sites for themselves. It provide a survey of all the major Holocaust sites in Europe, from Belgium and Belarus to Serbia and Ukraine: not only does it discuss the notorious concentration and death camps, such as Auschwitz and Ravensbruck, but also less well known examples, like Sered' in Slovakia, together with detailed descriptions of massacre sites, as well as the ghettos, 'Euthanasia' centres and Roma and Sinti sites which witnessed similar crimes. Throughout the book there is also extensive insight into the many museums and memorials which commemorate the Holocaust. The Holocaust Sites of Europe is a thoughtful and fitting guide to some of the most traumatic sites in Europe and will be an invaluable companion for those who wish to honour the victims and understand more about their fate.

Author : Elisabeth Punzi
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774869356
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sites of Conscience written by Elisabeth Punzi and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization – the closure of these sites and integration of former residents into the community – has become increasingly commonplace. But this project is unfinished. Sites of Conscience explores use of the concept of sites of conscience, which involves place-based memory activities such as walking tours, survivor-authored social histories, and performances and artistic works in or generated from sites of systemic suffering and injustice. These activities offer new ways to move forward from the unfinished deinstitutionalization project and its failures. Covering diverse national contexts, this volume proposes that acknowledging the memories and lived experiences of former residents – and keeping histories and social heritage of institutions alive rather than simply closing sites – holds the greatest potential for recognition, accountability, and action.

Author : Wenona Giles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520237919
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sites of Violence written by Wenona Giles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, militarization, nationalism, and globalization are scrutinized at sites of violent conflict from a range of feminist pespectives.

Author : Animal Studies Group
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252072901
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Animals written by Animal Studies Group and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though not often acknowledged openly, killing represents by far the most common form of human interaction with animals. These multidisciplinary essays reveal the complexity of this phenomenon by exploring the extraordinary diversity in killing practices and the wide variety of meanings attached to them.

Author : Victor Chabai, Jürgen Richter, Thorsten Uthmeier
Publisher : University of Cologne
ISBN 13 : 9666502313
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaeolithic Sites of Crimea 3.2: KABAZI V: Interstratification Of Micoquian & Levallois - Mousterian Camp Sites written by Victor Chabai, Jürgen Richter, Thorsten Uthmeier and published by University of Cologne. This book was released on 2007 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward B. Westermann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501754211
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drunk on Genocide written by Edward B. Westermann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the grave sites of their victims. Westermann argues that, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination. Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Author : Ferdinand Kühnel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643912234
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond written by Ferdinand Kühnel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.

Author : Marques Vickers
Publisher : Marquis Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topography of Evil: Notorious Northern California Murder Sites written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Topography of Evil: Notorious Northern California Murder Sites” is author and photographer Marques Vickers’ visual return to 43 infamous crime scenes detailing the shocking narratives behind each tragedy. Over 95 visual images amplify the experience by escorting the reader to the precise physical location, offering a critical context and perspective for understanding. Obscured by time and collective memory, revisiting a dormant crime scene is a process of comprehending the convergence of evil absorbed into a physical space. Crime scenes typically revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location’s unique significance. The captured snapshots portray searing testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Northern California has been the residence for many notorious individual and serial killers including the Zodiac, Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski, Dan White, Edmund Kemper III, Jim Jones, Richard Allen Davis, David Carpenter, Juan Corona and Scott Peterson. The media has renamed some such as the Trailside Killer, Co-ed Killer, Children of Thunder, Vampire of Sacramento, Zebra Killers and the Death House Landlady. Over 40+ convicted or deceased murderers are profiled including 24 who remain incarcerated and 5 awaiting execution at San Quentin Prison. The region has also buried notables among the profiled victims including San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, Supervisor Harvey Milk, Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Journalist Chauncey Bailey, Oscar Grant III, Polly Klaas, Lacy Peterson and 412 unclaimed bodies from the People’s Temple Massacre in Jonestown, Guyana. The Topography of Evil edition is segmented into seven categories including assassinations, abductions, historical legacies, reckless homicides, unsolved murders, rampage and serial killers. Within the context of each profile, crucial issues and questions are raised regarding capital punishment, American racial perceptions, parental influences, media reporting, public bias, self-incrimination protections and the fairness of judicial sentencing. A controversial alternative of voluntary euthanasia for the condemned is raised following the observation of California’s hopelessly backlogged number of inmates awaiting execution. Currently 743 inmates are sentenced to Death Row. Florida is second with 403 and Texas third at 276. The last California execution was in 2006. An extensive listing of fatality victims is included along with convicted and deceased killers. Each living convict still registered in the California penal system is identified by their respective current penitentiary, verdict and length of original jury sentencing. Vickers’s own introduction to the consequences of murder commenced with the 1968 killings of David Faraday and Betty Lou Jenson by the Zodiac killer in the author’s hometown. Faraday was an acquaintance of the author through Boy Scouts and his older sister knew both victims. His reflections on the trauma inflicted on his intimate suburban community correspond with the realization that a single homicide affects far more individuals than simply the victim. Hundreds and ultimately thousands may be touched by the arbitrariness and unfairness of life being terminated abruptly and prematurely. While acknowledging that some of the killings defy understanding and others may not properly be defined as evil, each remains uniquely tragic and generates substantial consequences. Remembering the legacies of the slain can seem uncomfortable for the living. Although absent from immediate view, the author stresses these victims should never be forgotten and merit our remembrance. Their legacies and the acts that ultimately killed them were final and irreversible. History weighs the significance. Cases Profiled (By Sequential Order and Category): Assassinations: Oakland School Superintendent Dr. Marcus Foster, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, Journalist Chauncey Bailey, The Marin County Courthouse Shootout Massacre and The Contract Killing of Joseph “The Animal” Barboza. Abductions: Kevin Collins, Cal Poly Student Kristin Smart, Brooke Hart and the Resulting San Jose Public Lynching, Patty Hearst, Polly Klaas and Rex Allen Krebs Historical Legacies: Miles Archer, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Fung “Little Pete” Jing Toy, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Warren Harding Reckless Homicides: Oscar Grant III, Artie Mitchell, Diane Whipple, Huey P. Newton, Laci Peterson and Lovelle Mixon Unsolved Murders: David Nadel, The Santa Rosa Hitchhiking Murders, Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen Rampage Mass Murders: Reverend Jim Jones and the People’s Temple Massacre, The Helzer Brothers, The 101 California Building Rampage, Dr. Victor Ohta, The 1977 Golden Dragon Bloodbath, Mel and Elizabeth Grimes, The Oikos University Shootings, Eastside Salinas Gang Killings and Lynwood “Jim” Drake. Serial Killings: Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski, Edmund Kemper III, Richard Trenton Chase, Juan Corona and Herbert Mullin, Dorothea Puente, David: Carpenter, The Zebra Killings and The Zodiac Killer.