{"id":36506,"date":"2016-02-26T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=36506"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:19:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T06:19:43","slug":"23-00-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=36506","title":{"rendered":"Polish Death Camps\u2019? Not Anymore!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Polish Death Camps\u2019? Not Anymore!<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Miko\u0142aj Gli\u0144ski<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe new Remember application launched by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in February 2016; photo: www.auschwitz.org<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A new application will help avoid the use of the notorious and historically incorrect terms \u2018Polish concentration camps\u2019 and \u2018Polish death camps\u2019 in written texts, and hopefully make this mistake a thing of the past.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Remember application was designed by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in co-operation with the Warsaw advertising agency FCB to help avoid the use of the confusing and incorrect terms \u2018Polish concentration camps\u2019 or \u2018Polish death camps\u2019. The programme searches electronic texts for these terms and suggests appropriate, historically-correct wording, such as \u2018Nazi German concentration and extermination camp\u2019 or \u2018Nazi camp in occupied Poland\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The application so far works in 16 languages and can be installed on PCs running Windows or Mac OS. As Agnieszka Heidrich from FCB Warsaw explains:<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon careful analysis of where and by whom the phrase \u2018Polish death camps\u2019 was used, it turned out that those who disseminated this error were mostly journalists. Although we are aware of cases of intentional manipulation, and then a refusal to rectify it, these errors often stem from haste and a lack of knowledge. This was the inspiration for us to develop the Remember application.<\/em><\/p>\n

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