Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/29/2014 01:53 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>I wonder if parameter means detail.

The original context seems directly tied to mapping ("marking") the location:
>  "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."

Like an archaeological investigation of a ruin-- clear the site and
determine its extent (boundaries).

Joel

>For each site, the project notes the
>following:
>
>Place
>Coordinates
>Murder Site
>Event
>
>http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/institute/killing_sites_catalog_details_full.asp?region=Nowogrodek
>
>Beyond that, they are interested in the number of victims and the
>perpetrators.
>
>DanG
>
>
>On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:51 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
>adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The confusion between parameter and perimeter is longstanding. The
> > entry for "parameter" at Dictionary.com (which is based on Random
> > House Dictionary) includes information on this topic. Here is an
> > excerpt that begins with senses 4 and 5 of parameter
> >
> > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parameter
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > Parameter noun ...
> >
> > 4. Usually, parameters. limits or boundaries; guidelines: the basic
> > parameters of our foreign policy.
> >
> > 5. characteristic or factor; aspect; element: a useful parameter for
> > judging long-term success.
> >
> > Can be confused: 1. boundary, limit, parameter, variable (see synonym
> > study at boundary)(see usage note at the current entry) ; 2.
> > parameter, perimeter.
> >
> > Usage note 4, 5.  Some object strongly to the use of parameter in
> > these newer senses. Nevertheless, the criticized uses are now well
> > established both in educated speech and in edited writing.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > > Subject:      Determining the parameters of Holocaust execution sites
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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".
> > >
> > > "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."
> > >
> > >   NYTimes, Jan. 27/28,
> > >
> >
> 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).
> > >
> > > I assume this should have been "perimeters".  (Word's first
> > > correction suggestion for "perameters" is "parameters".)
> > >
> > > Joel
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