Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/28/2014 06:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Maybe they think "parameters" means "boundaries" or "limits."

That was for me a rejected hypothesis.  Marking five sites is notably
physical, whereas parametric limits are figurative.  But modern
writers can believe anything.

Joel


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>On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > In an article on executions of Jews in Eastern Europe during the
> > Holocaust, highlighting research showing that "a third or more" died
> > not by gas in concentration camps but by being shot in small numbers
> > in "thousands of villages, quarries, forests, wells, streets and homes".
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> > "Father Desbois has worked with the American Jewish Committee on five
> > sites in Ukraine and Belarus to clear them, find their parameters and
> > have them marked."
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> >   NYTimes, Jan. 27/28,
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/europe/a-light-on-a-vast-toll-of-jews-killed-away-from-the-death-camps.html?_r=0
> > or p. A10 (col. 4 in NE Edition).
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> > I assume this should have been "perimeters".  (Word's first
> > correction suggestion for "perameters" is "parameters".)
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> > Joel
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