Professor gets funding to map Holocaust

  • Texas State researcher brings new tools, new questions to bear on a much-studied event.


SAN MARCOS — Alberto Giordano’s interest in the Holocaust is both personal and professional.

The personal part: His ancestors participated in the Italian resistance, the grass-roots movement against Nazi occupiers and native fascists during World War II.

The professional part: Giordano is a geographer, and the Holocaust — the systematic persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime and its collaborators — has never been analyzed with the computerized tools of modern geography.

That is about to change. The National Science Foundation has awarded $430,000 to Giordano, an associate professor at Texas State University-San Marcos, and Anne Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont who also specializes in computer-assisted historical geography, 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.

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Source:

www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/10/02/1002holocaust.html
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, October 02, 2008


Webmaster note: Any chance he’ll find a Nazi gas chamber?