"Missing Links: Social Bonds and Barriers amongst Italian Jewish Deportees" - Public lecture by Bieke Van Camp (PhD Candidate, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France), 2018-2019 Katz Research Fellow

In this lecture, Bieke Van Camp presented some of the findings of her ongoing doctoral research on social interaction and group survival strategies in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. She explored how network analysis of Italian testimonies from the oral collections of the Visual History Archive and the Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea of Milan suggests that a very large majority of Italian Jews were deported initially to the same Nazi Lager (Birkenau) during a rather small lapse of time (October 1943 – 1945). Both arguments enhance the possibility that the individuals would come across one another.

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