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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Individual Entries
Genocide of the Armenians (Medz Yeghern, “Great Crime”)
The Young Turks (nationalist officers of the Ottoman Empire) ordered massive massacres against the Armenian Christian population between 1915 and 1923. Subsequent mass deportations will bring the number of victims to about one and a half million.
Genocide of the peoples of China
In the year 1900, the Boxer Revolt caused over 30,000 deaths, mostly Christians, in Northern China. And at least 48 million Chinese have fallen under the Mao regime between the Great Leap Forward, the purges, the cultural revolution and the forced labor camps, from 1949 to 1975.
Genocide of the peoples in Russia
No less than 20 million Russians were...