Ethics in research by Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia

“…Ethics in research and how it is translated into practice is fundamental to rule out any potential misconduct either with the scientific method or the way results are presented to the world, thus impacting patients outcomes.The last two years of the Covid-19 pandemic were prolific in exposing the scientific community and healthcare professionals to the many flaws regarding the different studies either with promising simple treatments or sophisticated medications.Supposedly high-profile papers with the antimalarial medication hydroxychloroquine either favoring its use or indicating the risk of death were retracted from very prestigious journals such as the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.Ethics in research became fundamental in reaction to abuses practiced against people as the Nazi studies on concentration camp prisoners or the syphilis study with American prisoners or the US governments radiation experiment.…”
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Les récits livresques de survivance sur le camp de la Neue Bremm by Jacques Walter

“…Three hypotheses are put forth : these narratives constitute a source of information about the modalities of perception by the detainees of the functioning of the camp up until now studied from a factual point of view ; as the detainees were to be sent to « larger » camps, these writings offer a condensed vision of a first contact with the concentration camp universe, close to an « initiation » narrative ; since the year 2000, we have witnessed an editorial autonomization of certain narratives caused by more than simply the personality of the author. …”
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Filling the Absence: the re-embodiment of sites of mass atrocity and the practices they generate by Kerry Whigham

“…By focusing specifically on la Escuela Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA), the largest former concentration camp in Argentina, this article examines these sites as places that allow for a certain set of shared, embodied practices to be performed both by the curators or organizers of the sites, as well as the visitors to the sites. …”
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Presence and absence of the belated witness in two short stories by Mavis Gallant by Joseph Ballan

“…Much of Gallant’s short fiction critically analyzes various aspects of post-war western European cultures, but the two stories considered here (‘The Old Place’ and ‘Old Friends’) are unique in her published fiction in that they feature concentration camp survivors as main characters.  According to Levine, the ‘belated witness’ is a narrative figure, different to the survivor him or herself, who enables and supports testimony to trauma. …”
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Mój ból jest większy niż twój by Marta Śmietana

“… MY PAIN IS GREATER THAN YOURS: THE PROCESS OF COMMEMORATING KL PLASZOW This article presents an accompanying description of the process involved in commemorating the former labor and concentration camp, Plaszow. The actors involved primarily differ in the function they desire to attribute to the memorial, while the strong emotions accompanying them are primarily a consequence of the process’s underlying cause – death ingrained in the post-camp landscape. …”
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Les lieux d’origine du devoir de mémoire by Sébastien Ledoux

“…Questions surrounding its starting point have produced a certain amount of scientific literature centered on the origins of the term, which it associates with the testimony of concentration camp survivors. This association was furthered by a discursive memory of the term which, during the 1990s, primarily designated things referring to the memory of the Holocaust. …”
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Displaying dead bodies: bones and human biomatter post-genocide by Jessica Auchter

“…It then takes up two artistic projects that play on the materiality of human remains after atrocity: the art of Carl Michael von Hausswolff, who took ashes from an urn at the Majdanek concentration camp and used them as the material for his painting, and the One Million Bones Project, an installation that exhibits ceramic bones to raise awareness about global violence. …”

Rethinking Authenticity of the Holocaust Experience Through Museum Architecture by Xenia Tsiftsi

“…Moreover, the juxtaposition between the Museum and the actual site, such as a concentration camp, apart from raising questions of veracity and representation- which one provides a “real” account of the past? …”
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Le leggi di <i>W</i>. Georges Perec, utopia e memoria by Luigi Marfè

“…How could the story of an imaginary society based on sport laws be an allegory of the concentration camp? What made the drawings of this improbable utopia, sketched in some forgotten days of youth, the objets trouvés for the reworking of the trauma of an orphan and the history of the Shoah? …”
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To Survive Ravensbrück: Considerations on Museum Pedagogy and the Passing on of Holocaust Remembrance by Katrine Tinning

“…The exhibition centres on a unique collection of small objects secretly and illegally created by women in the Ravensbrück concentration camp as acts of resistance against the inhuman conditions in the camp. …”
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Spiral Coercion: Nazi Power and Family Authority in Charlotte Salomon’s Autobiographical Work Life? Or Theatre? by Eleftheria Karagianni

“…is a visual-theatrical, textual, and auto-biographical play of Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish talented artist, executed at a very young age in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In this paper, I consider Salomon’s work a document of life, and a testimony of her personal intra-familial, and personal experience of “the before—Auschwitz” (Jenn-Gastal 228) depicting, among others, historical and socio-political facts articulated and expressed through narrative and painting. …”
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The Bunker and the camp: inside West Germany's nuclear tomb by Klinke, I

“…Constructed on the site of a subterranean World War 2 concentration camp, the bunker hosted a number of NATO exercises, which simulated nuclear war on German soil. …”

A Journey, the Pain of Others, and Historical Experience: Susan Silas by Sendyka, Roma

“…The walk repeats the route which in 1945 had to undertake women prisoners from the concentration camp in Helmbrechts near Flossenbürg in their death march to Prachatice in Czech Republic. …”
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Varga Zsigmond teológia professzor, a Debreceni m. kir. Tisza István-Tudományegyetem 1932/33. évi Rector Magnificusa by Levente Baráth

“…Varga jr. was a student of the University of Vienna, he was nprisoned by the Gestapo and he died a martyr’s death in the concentration camp of Mauthausen-Gusen.…”
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Liminarités, fissures et réécritures : un événement à la frontière entre le nord du Portugal et la Galice by Paula Godinho

“…In this case study, the event occurs in a border village, ten years after the Alzamiento : Cambedo da Raia is surrounded and under several mortar attacks, people are killed, a man commits suicide, several other people are arrested and some among these latter are sent to the dreadful Tarrafal concentration camp. Information about these events has been covered up and distorted by Portuguese censorship.…”
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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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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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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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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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