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  • A Tale of Two Cities of Death
    Cinquegrani, Maurizio

    Journey to Poland, 01/2018
    Book Chapter

    The documentaries discussed in the previous chapters have addressed the ways in which the destruction of the Jews resulted in the annihilation of countless communities and displaced millions of men, women and children from theirshtetlekhand their neighbourhoods, while creating new kinds of places where the victims were concentrated, exploited and eventually murdered. This chapter presents a topographical shift in focus from the places inhabited by the Jews before and during the war to the spaces designed for their extermination in the context of what should not be understood as one event, but rather as a succession of small-and