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The More I Know, The Less I Understand Dawson, Maria; Liu, Joe; Denault, John; Cheung, Melody; Brewster, Sara; Hass, Riley; Tsang, Vivian; Ng, Joanne; Ferguson, Megan; Halaburda, Carlos Gustavo; et al.

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The essays that you will find in this book are the result of a long journey. They have been written by undergraduate students who came to Poland from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), as a part of the intensive research seminar Witnessing Auschwitz. Coming from various backgrounds, personal as well as academic, students invested an incredible amount of time and dedication into learning about the camp and the crimes committed there. Each study in this volume is based on the unique interests of these young researchers and will highlight a particular aspect of history related to Auschwitz. The texts come with invaluable footnotes by experts in the field who accompanied our students with advice and support throughout their research. With The More I Know, The Less I Understand, UBC students share with you their insights on the topics where they have focused their dedication and their intellect. “Witnessing Auschwitz – Conflicting Stories and Memories” is an intensive research seminar developed by scholars from the University of British Columbia (UBC), the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. Each spring since 2014, a new group of students from UBC has travelled to Poland for a month of lectures and study tours on subjects pertaining to pre-war Jewish life and the Holocaust in Poland. Students spend two weeks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum where they work and study with the Museum’s historians, collections specialists, and members of its publishing house and education centre. They spend another two weeks studying in Warsaw, Kraków, and Białystok. By the end of the program, students have developed research topics deeply rooted in the scholarship to which they have been exposed while in Poland. The essays in this volume are the result of this inspiring and important international, scholarly, and educational collaboration.

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Title
The More I Know, The Less I Understand
Alternate Title
Im więcej wiem, tym mniej rozumiem
Creator
Dawson, Maria; Liu, Joe; Denault, John; Cheung, Melody; Brewster, Sara; Hass, Riley; Tsang, Vivian; Ng, Joanne; Ferguson, Megan; Halaburda, Carlos Gustavo; Franzen, Carolina; Wachtel, Amir; Passey, Jessica; Shaw, Meredith; Winckler, Emily; Hill, Ellyn; Galpin, Mikiko; Tong, Audrey; Kim, Jae Hyun; Bryn-Mcleod, Helena
Contributor
Karwowska, Bożena; Nowak, Anja; Witnessing Auschwitz (Seminar)
Publisher
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Date Issued
2017
Description
The essays that you will find in this book are the result of a long journey. They have been written by undergraduate students who came to Poland from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), as a part of the intensive research seminar Witnessing Auschwitz. Coming from various backgrounds, personal as well as academic, students invested an incredible amount of time and dedication into learning about the camp and the crimes committed there. Each study in this volume is based on the unique interests of these young researchers and will highlight a particular aspect of history related to Auschwitz. The texts come with invaluable footnotes by experts in the field who accompanied our students with advice and support throughout their research. With The More I Know, The Less I Understand, UBC students share with you their insights on the topics where they have focused their dedication and their intellect. “Witnessing Auschwitz – Conflicting Stories and Memories” is an intensive research seminar developed by scholars from the University of British Columbia (UBC), the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. Each spring since 2014, a new group of students from UBC has travelled to Poland for a month of lectures and study tours on subjects pertaining to pre-war Jewish life and the Holocaust in Poland. Students spend two weeks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum where they work and study with the Museum’s historians, collections specialists, and members of its publishing house and education centre. They spend another two weeks studying in Warsaw, Kraków, and Białystok. By the end of the program, students have developed research topics deeply rooted in the scholarship to which they have been exposed while in Poland. The essays in this volume are the result of this inspiring and important international, scholarly, and educational collaboration.
Genre
Book
Type
Text
Language
eng; Other
Date Available
2022-08-31
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0418471
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82636
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Business, Sauder School of; Science, Faculty of; Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of; Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, Department of; English, Department of; Finance, Division of; History, Department of; Microbiology and Immunology, Department of; Music, School of; Political Science, Department of; Psychology, Department of
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Undergraduate
Copyright Holder
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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