Morose's Fights at Sea in Epicoene

Edelman, Charles

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“…It brings a quiet, peaceful death, it saves from the horror of the cars. 1 Those words echo in another account – I remember nothing more – this time of then a young paediatrician, Adina Blady Szwajger, who again describes those very events. She was asked by a nursing sister – ‘Doctor, please give my mother an injection.…”

Section: Case History 1: Warsaw Ghettomentioning

confidence: 91%

Classic cases revisited: Of hurricanes, cyanide and moral courage

Szawarski

2018

Journal of the Intensive Care Society

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All decisions made by doctors have a moral dimension. When a moral judgement demands a different course of action to one that represents the usual practice, many doctors do struggle. The inability to embrace such decisions can represent moral negligence, as often the consequence is greater suffering for the individual in question or loss of utility for the population. On the other hand, it takes courage to make such decisions as the society fails to accept them, even though decisions made are rational and morally valid. Clinical practice that does not conform to moral judgements can result in moral distress, burn out and job-leave. Reflective practice evaluating moral dimensions of clinical decision making is an important aspect of nurturing humanity, empathy and professionalism in the therapeutic endeavour.

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Section: Case History 1: Warsaw Ghettomentioning

confidence: 91%

Classic cases revisited: Of hurricanes, cyanide and moral courage

Szawarski

2018

Journal of the Intensive Care Society

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“…They did not evacuate a single living person." 77 This ethos is strongly represented in the uprising's postwar legend: Mordechai Anielewicz, the young commander whose resemblance is forever immortalized on a grassy Warsaw square, was among the dozens of individuals who committed suicide on May 18, 1943 in a bunker at 18 Miła Street. 78 The shape of the figures on the memorial's obverse side-the Jewish masses who are not distinguished as individuals on Rappoport's stonework-provide an important counterweight to the heroic narrative of the 1943 uprising.…”

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No Song for Birds in Flight: The Life and Afterlife of Suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto

Roche

2023

Slavic rev.

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This article is an exploration of how individuals in the Warsaw Ghetto discussed and remembered wartime suicide, as well as the ways in which these events were translated into legend by subsequent generations. First-person sources show how witnesses understood and evaluated suicide as one of the few choices available to Jews under Nazi occupation; Their reactions ranged from admiration or yearning to disapproval, disgust, and indifference. Although death and violence became part of daily life, suicide was not: in fact, the suicide rate in the ghetto was over a third lower than what it was in prewar Warsaw (Lindenthal, 2014). The goal of this study is not to condemn, glorify, or even understand events of suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto. Rather, the study of suicide in the context of the Holocaust presents an opportunity to rigorously question preconceived notions of agency, survivorship, and testimony. The Warsaw Ghetto existed in the physical space of the city for just three years, but its legacy of violence has endured for decades. This research builds not only on the historiography of the Holocaust in Poland, but also adds to the broader fields of the history of psychology and memory in the midst of genocide.

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“…Officially supplied rations hovered around 177 calories a day (Ringelblum, 2015: 228). People depended on smuggled food, with up to 80% of calories consumed in the ghetto introduced in by networks of food smugglers (Cesarini, 1994: 153), many of whom where children (Schiff, 1998). In less than 2 years, 100,000 ghetto residents died (Roland, 1992: 223–225).…”

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How rebel groups form in genocide: The Warsaw Ghetto fighters

Reilly

2021

Violence: An International Journal

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is emblematic of armed Jewish resistance to the Holocaust; it should also be emblematic of rebel organization formation and capacity building in the most extreme power asymmetry. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising happened because civilians who were directly experiencing a genocide formed rebel organizations that gained the capacity to hold territory. Drawing from video testimonies and memoirs of survivors, diaries of witnesses, and the work of historians, this study analyzes the formation and evolution of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) to create and begin to validate a generalizable theory on how rebel organizations form in genocide, and how they create the capacity to hold territory from the genocidal opponent. The ŻOB evolved from a violent resistance organization to a rebel organization with a military infrastructure that could hold territory against the Nazis; further, it was this capacity to hold territory that allowed the ŻOB to win the survival of many Jews. These findings offer important insights on the possibility of rebel group mobilization against genocidal persecution, and can be used to understand contemporary genocide resisters.

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Morose's Fights at Sea in Epicoene

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Classic cases revisited: Of hurricanes, cyanide and moral courage

Classic cases revisited: Of hurricanes, cyanide and moral courage

No Song for Birds in Flight: The Life and Afterlife of Suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto

How rebel groups form in genocide: The Warsaw Ghetto fighters

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