Antígona en Katyn / Antigone in Katyn

Andrzej Wajda recrea los sucesos de la masacre de Katyn, al inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en la que 22 mil polacos fueron masacrados por los soviéticos y luego atribuyeron el crimen a los nazis. El director polaco se vale de la Antígona de Sófocles para adaptarla al escenario de postguerra de la República Popular Polaca bajo el régimen comunista, para relatar la lucha de Agnieszka por poner en la lápida de su hermano asesinado en Katyn la verdadera fecha en que murió, desbaratando el relato falso de los comunistas sobre la responsabilidad por su muerte. Katyn, de Wajda, es el modo cinematográfico de dar palabras e imágenes a ese real decretado como no acontecido.

Andrzej Wajda recreates the events of the Katyn´s massacre at the beginning of the Second World War, in whith 22 thousand polish were killed by the soviets, and then they accused the nazis for the crime.The polish director adapt Sofocles´s Antigona to the postwar scenario, to report Agnieszka´s struggle to sign on the tombstone of her brother killed in Katyn, the real date when he died, disrupting the false tale of the communists about the responsability for his death. Wajda´s Katyn is the cinematographic way of giving words and images to a real that was decreed as not having happen.

Parasitic Diseases as the Cause of Death of Prisoners of War during the Korean War (1950-1953)

To determine the cause of death of prisoners of war during the Korean War (1950-1953), death certificates or medical records were analyzed. Out of 7,614 deaths, 5,013 (65.8%) were due to infectious diseases. Although dysentery and tuberculosis were the most common infectious diseases, parasitic diseases had caused 14 deaths: paragonimiasis in 5, malaria in 3, amoebiasis in 2, intestinal parasitosis in 2, ascariasis in 1, and schistosomiasis in 1. These results showed that paragonimiasis, malaria, and amoebiasis were the most fatal parasitic diseases during the early 1950s in the Korean Peninsula. Since schistosomiasis is not endemic to Korea, it is likely that the infected private soldier moved from China or Japan to Korea.

Causes of Death of Prisoners of War during the Korean War (1950-1953)

PURPOSE: This study aimed at analyzing the causes of death of prisoners of war (POWs) during the Korean War (1950-1953) who fought for the Communist side (North Korea and the People's Republic of China). In 1998, the United States Department of Defense released new information about the prisoners including, 7,614 deaths of the POW during the Korean War. The data on the causes of death of the POWs during the Korean War provides valuable information on the both the public health and history of the conflict. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To analyze the causes of death of the POWs, we classified the clinical diagnosis and findings on 7,614 deaths into 22 chapters, as outlined in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems-10th Revision (ICD-10). Second, we traced changes in the monthly death totals of POWs as well as deaths caused by common infectious diseases and external causes of death including injury over time from August 1950 to September 1953. RESULTS: The most common category of causes of deaths of POWs was infectious disease, 5,013 (65.8%) out of 7,614 deaths, followed by external causes including injury, 817 (10.7%). Overall, tuberculosis and dysentery/diarrhea were the most common causes of death. Deaths caused by acute and chronic infection, or external causes showed different patterns of increases and decline over time during the Korean War. CONCLUSION: The information and data on POWs' deaths during the Korean War reflects the critical impact of the POWs' living conditions and the effect of public health measures implemented in POW camps during the war.

Análise da narrativa de Viktor Frankl acerca da experiência dos prisioneiros nos campos de concentração / Analysis of Viktor Frankl's narrative on the experience of prisoners in concentration camps / Análisis de la narrativa de Viktor Frankl sobre la experiencia de los presos en campos de concentración

O objetivo do presente artigo foi identificar a estrutura lexical mais significativa na obra de Viktor Frankl Em busca de sentido: um psicólogo no campo de concentração. O corpus do texto foi analisado por meio do software ALCESTE (Análise Lexical Contextual de um Conjunto de Segmentos de Texto), um método computacional que se propõe a decompor um texto a fim de obter as estruturas mais significativas. Os significados encontrados foram divididos em três classes subdivididas em dois eixos: Facticidade e Posicionamento Psicoexistencial dos Prisioneiros. Por meio dessa análise foi possível identificar as palavras mais características utilizadas por Frankl na sua narrativa acerca da vivência do prisioneiro no campo de concentração. Os resultados foram discutidos com base nos direitos humanos e na logoterapia e análise existencial...

The aim of this paper was to identify the lexical structure more significant in the work of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. The text corpus was analyzed by the software ALCESTE (Lexical analysis by context of a set of text segments), a computational method that aims to decompose a text in order to obtain the most significant structures. The meanings found were divided into three classes subdivided into two axes: Facticity and Psycho-existential Positioning of Prisoners. By this analysis it was possible to identify the most typical words used by Frankl in his narrative about the experience of the prisoner in a concentration camp. The results were discussed based on human rights and logotherapy and existential analysis...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue identificar la estructura léxica más importante en la labor de búsqueda de Viktor Frankl en busca de sentido: un psicólogo en el campo de concentración. La recopilación del texto fue analizado por el software ALCESTE (Análisis léxico por el contexto de un conjunto de segmentos de texto), un método computacional que tiene como objetivo descomponer un texto con el fin de obtener las estructuras más importantes. Los significados que se encuentran divididos en tres categorías, subdivididas en dos ejes: facticidad y posicionamiento psico-existencial de los reclusos. Mediante este análisis se pudo identificar las palabras más típicas utilizadas por Frankl en su relato sobre la experiencia de los prisioneros en un campo de concentración. Los resultados fueron discutidos con base en los derechos humanos y en la logoterapia y análisis existencial...