Concentration Camps: A Short History

Psychology in Franco’s Concentration Camps

3 INTELLECTUALS AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR On July, 18th, 1936, a faction of the Spanish Army rebelled against the government of the Republic. A Civil War began, which lasted until April 1st, 1939. The conflict quickly gained international dimensions. In intellectual environments, the Spanish RepublicÕs support for the anti-fascist fight was majority. In the United States of America some groups ...

The lasting trauma of the concentration camps.

The children and grandchildren ofsurvivors may also be affected We have known for centuries that traumatic events, physical or mental, have a profound and often lasting effect on the personality. Yet somehow we keep forgetting this phenomenon: it has been rediscovered, redescribed, and renamed by each generation. War reminds us forcibly of the facts. In the past 100 years, the immediate impact ...

A short history of a short RNA

The intellectual backdrop motivating our effort to clone lin-4 (Lee et al., 1993) had nothing to do with questions about noncoding RNAs or antisense gene regulation. We were simply curious about an interesting worm mutant, and everything we found out about it was unexpected. We consider ourselves very lucky to happen to have chosen lin-4 to study. In fact, good fortune appeared at many steps be...

[Facing death at the Birkenau and Ravensbrueck concentration camps].

CommentaryA Short History of a Short RNA

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