Transcontinental Contacts: The Marainis’ Journey from Italy to Japan by Ellen Patat

“…From the physical voyage on board of the Italian ocean liner Conte Verde to their very first days and daily life in Japan – first in Hokkaido and then in Kyoto, before the family’s deportation to a concentration camp in Nagoya – Maraini focuses on the subtle plots of interpersonal dynamics, enriching the account with her own childhood memories and her witty remarks generating a meaningful link across time and space. …”
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Bridging the gaps between Holocaust accounts: Fieldwork evidence for compromising forms of narrative by Eyal Lewin, Slawomir Jacek Zurek, Nitza Davidovitch

“…We then give an account from the field: during January and February 2020, we visited the Majdanek Concentration Camp Museum, where we met and interviewed some of the local guides; we also went to the Grodzka Gate Centre in Lublin and discussed things with their guides. …”
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A place of memory – monument – counter-monument. Artistic strategies of commemoration in Krakow's district of Podgórze by Szymański, Wojciech

“…A monumental piece erected by Witold Cęckiewicz in the 1960s in the former Płaszów Concentration Camp has been joined by contemporary works. …”
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Conception de l'histoire, concept de culture européenne chez Jean Améry et Imre Kertész by Dorottya Szávai

“…Proceeding from Imre Kertész's phrase: "the concentration camp is imaginable only and exclusively as literature, never as reality" the essay is going to re-read the History and Europe's cultural memory based on the theories of Ricœur's History, Memory, Forgetting. …”
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Communist Armenian Women’s History by Lerna Ekmekcioglu

“…While LAS was arrested a month before the liberation of Paris and died in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp soon afterwards, her comrades decided to continue the fight though on a different platform. …”
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John Paul II in the face of the reality of Auschwitz by Stanisław Wronka

“…In the context of the canonization of John Paul II, the author reflects on his experience of the concentration camp at Auschwitz. It is a difficult experience, therefore it can more reveal the Pope as a man and a pastor, his way of thinking and perceiving reality. …”
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Stanisław Bednarski SJ and prof. Stanisław Kot: pupil and master by Stanisław Cieślak SJ

“…Kot survived the War and emigrated, where he remained active in politics, while his student died on July 16, 1942 in the German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich.   …”
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La figura del coautore nelle letterature testimoniali in Italia by Daniele Comberiati, Bieke Van Camp

“…Focusing on the Italian literary context, the aim of our article is to investigate the first phase of migration literature in comparison with deportation and concentration camp testimonies that, not surprisingly, have emerged since 1995 (Baldini 2012; Gordon 2012), when the first migrant productions began to run out. …”
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Early Gulag Studies Between Ostracism And Forgetfulness

“…Fourthly, that set is related to ‘elsewhereness’ and ‘liminality’, viewing concentration camp experience as one both of ‘being-elsewhere’ and ‘liminal’, and the venture to create those camps as ‘liminal’. …”
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Ketamine Alters Functional Plasticity of Astroglia: An Implication for Antidepressant Effect by Matjaž Stenovec

“…Here, I review studies revealing that (sub)anesthetic doses of ketamine elevate intracellular cAMP concentration ([cAMP]_i) in astrocytes, attenuate stimulus-evoked astrocyte calcium signaling, which regulates exocytotic secretion of gliosignaling molecules, and stabilize the vesicle fusion pore in a narrow configuration, possibly hindering cargo discharge or vesicle recycling. …”
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Formation of the underground movement in the Northern Crimea (1941–1943) by Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ivanov

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Stanisław Bednarski SJ and prof. Stanisław Kot: pupil and master (in Polish) by Stanisław Cieślak SJ

“…Kot survived the War and emigrated, where he remained active in politics, while his student died on July 16, 1942 in the German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich.…”
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Identity and Multilingualism. An Anthropological Reading of the Representation of Alterity in Literary Katabasis by Bonda Moreno, Macijauskaitė-Bonda Jurgita

“…Multilingualism is the central point in Levi’s memories from the time spent in a concentration camp where ‘languages absolutely not understandable [...], the orders shouted in languages [we] were not able to recognize’ and the ‘endless Babel where everyone is shouting’ symbolize the lost human condition. …”
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Jorge Semprún, o la literatura contra la memoria = Jorge Semprún or literature against memory by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…Far from being a mere illustration of the author’s cultural capital, the quotation and allusion to other authors evinces a personal trauma that reflects his own experience in a concentration camp and his need to dissolve his subjectivity in the voice of otherness. …”
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More than an Afterimage: Music as Holocaust Spatial Representation and Legacy by Kellie D. Brown

“…In the most tragic sense, some of these instruments even became actual containers of genocidal evidence as with violins played outside concentration camp crematoria that filled with the human ash that fell. …”
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The role of type 4 phosphodiesterases in generating microdomains of cAMP: large scale stochastic simulations. by Oliveira, R, Terrin, A, Di Benedetto, G, Cannon, R, Koh, W, Kim, M, Zaccolo, M, Blackwell, K

“…The model reproduces the high concentration cAMP microdomain in the submembrane region, distinct from the lower concentration of cAMP in the cytosol. …”

Considering Second World War Archaeological Heritage in France by Vincent Carpentier

“…In particular, this concerns the search, currently underway, of the only Nazi concentration camp on French soil, the KL Natzweiler-Struthof. …”
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Wissenschaftliche Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare als Opfer der NS-Diktatur. Eine Übersicht über 250 Lebensläufe seit dem Jahr 1933 Teil 2: Emigration, Widerstand, Deportation... by Ulrich Hohoff

“…The paper closes with a documentation of 52 cases of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp or a ghetto. Surviving persons and remigrants are also listed. …”
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Des femmes allemandes au service de la guerre : participations actives aux politiques raciales nationales-socialistes, à la déportation et au génocide (1939-1945) by Elissa Mailänder

“…The same year, Elissa Mailänder published her work on the violence of female concentration camp guards in occupied Poland [German: Gewalt im Dienstalltag]. …”
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Strikes and discontent in the French empire and beyond 1947-48 by Stone, JP

“…The preservation of concentration-camp like detention centres, and the erection of confining ONCOR barracks, ensured <em>l’univers concentrationnaire</em> remained a permanent fixture in the psychological and architectural landscape of the immediate post-war years. …”