Historie og GIS er en god blanding. Holocaust er en af de mere dystre a slagsen, men også det mere spændende. Mange har hørt om det, men de færreste har (endnu) en geografisk relation til fakta. For nogle år siden besøgte jeg Theresienstadt i Tjekkiet - det var en af de mere følelsesmæssige oplevelser jeg har haft - dragende og frastødende på samme tid.
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History and GIS is a good blend. Holocaust is one of the more dark chapters in human history but also one the more interesting. Many have heard about it but few have a geographic relation to the facts. Some years ago I visites Theresienstandt near Prague - and it was a very emotional experience for me - I was at the same time looking and not looking - at the same time wanting to know and not to know.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded $430,000 to Alberto Giordano, an associate professor at Texas State University-San Marcos, and Anne Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont to conduct a two-year study focusing on four aspects of the Holocaust: the evolution of the concentration camp system, the deportation of Jews from France and Italy, life inside the Budapest ghetto and the death marches from Auschwitz. This will be first study of the topic using GIS tools.
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