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The Drawings of Zeev Porath

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This project explores the use of art as a form of testimony and as a way to both corroborate and analyze the experience of prisoners in the Janowska concentration camp from a spatial perspective.  In particular, it will draw on the work of Zeev Porath, a prisoner in the camp whose collection of drawings represent both documentary witnessing and also his emotional reaction to the events he witnessed as a result of his own privileged position in the camp.

This digital presentation combines testimony of multiple kinds from Porath, other survivors, and perpetrators to create a complex integrated and spatially grounded history of particular elements of the camp.  It is not intended to be exhaustive but rather an example of how the MapScholar platform and archival documents can be combined to create new meaning and ask new questions about the Holocaust.

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