Andrea Pitzer

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Andrea Pitzer
Born Parkersburg, West Virginia[1]
Nationality USA
Occupation Journalist
Known for recognized as an expert on the history of concentration camps

Andrea Pitzer is an American journalist, known for One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov and Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World.[2][3][4]

Pitzer was widely cited, in 2019, when there was a spirited discussion as to whether the camps where the United States Border authorities detained refugee claimants were or weren't canonical concentration camps.[2][3][5] In particular, a tweet where Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez linked to an article in Esquire magazine, that extensively quoted Pitzer stirred widespread debate.

Pitzer was interviewed on All In with Chris Hayes, on the Border Patrol detention camps, on June 6, 2019.[6] According to Pitzer recognizable concentration camps were first used in Spanish Cuba, in the 1890s. She said that while the Nazi death camps were the best known concentration camps, they have been used around the world. She said she found that concentration camps were hard to close; how she found that authorities found them so convenient, that they were re-used for other groups. She cited how French camps first used to house refugees from the Spanish Civil War were later used by the Vichy French to house jews rounded up to hand over to their Nazi occupiers, and a camp at the Guantanamo Naval Base to house Haitian and Cuban refugees was later used to house captives from Afghanistan. She said her book began when "I looked to see how this idea, of rounding up a whole bunch of civilians - noncombatants - and putting them in detention, without trial... How did that get to be seen as a good idea?"

Pitzer was interviewed by Jamelle Bouie on June 21, 2019, for Slate's Trumpcast.[7]

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Pitzer published Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World in January, 2021.[10] Pitzer gave multiple interviews about her new book.[11][12]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Andrea Pitzer (2019-04-30). "The small-town West Virginia bookstore that helped me survive my terrible childhood: The Books in My Grandparents’ Parkersburg Store Helped Me Escape From My Troubles and Understand Cruelty". Zocalo Public Square. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2019/04/30/the-small-town-west-virginia-bookstore-that-helped-me-survive-my-terrible-childhood/ideas/essay/. Retrieved 2019-07-17.  . 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jack Holmes (2019-06-13). "An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border: "Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz."". Esquire magazine. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentration-camps-southern-border-migrant-detention-facilities-trump/. Retrieved 2019-07-17. "But while the world-historical horrors of the Holocaust are unmatched, they are only the most extreme and inhuman manifestation of a concentration-camp system—which, according to Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, has a more global definition." 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Masha Gessen (2019-06-21). "The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps". New Yorker magazine. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps. Retrieved 2019-07-17. "Pitzer argued that "mass detention of civilians without a trial" was what made the camps concentration camps." 
  4. ↑ Andrea Pitzer (2019-06-18). "How the Trump Administration's Border Camps Fit into the History of Concentration Camps: Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, examines the detentions of migrants in America.". Gentleman's Quarterly magazine. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://www.gq.com/story/us-border. Retrieved 2019-07-17. "People today tend to think of Nazi death camps as defining the term “concentration camp.” But before World War II, this phrase was used to describe the detention of civilians without trial based on group identity." 
  5. ↑ "The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'concentration camp' debate, explained". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. June 19, 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camp-debate-explained/. Retrieved June 25, 2019. 
  6. ↑ Chris Hayes (2019-06-06). "Lessons from history as U.S. detains more migrants". MSNBC. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225657/https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lessons-from-history-as-u-s-detains-more-migrants-61457989855?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ai. Retrieved 2019-07-17. "As the U.S. camp system to detain migrants grows, author Andrea Pitzer laid out lessons from history on camp detentions." 
  7. ↑ Jamelle Bouie (2018-06-21). "Detained Without Trial: A History of Concentration Camps". Slate's Trumpcast. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/trumpcast?selected=PPY4231563977. Retrieved 2019-07-17. 
  8. ↑ Andrea Pitzer (2010-04-05). "David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker". Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2010/04/05/david-grann-on-murder-madness-and-writing-for-the-new-yorker/. Retrieved 2019-07-17. 
  9. ↑ Andrea Pitzer (2011-11-09). "Roy Peter Clark on 'the power of the parts' for storytelling". Nieman Foundation for Journalism. http://niemanstoryboard.us/2010/11/09/roy-peter-clark-on-the-power-of-the-parts-for-storytelling/. Retrieved 2019-07-17. 
  10. ↑ Rachel Slade (2021-01-08). "‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320225639/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/books/review/icebound-andrea-pitzer.html. Retrieved 2021-03-20. "She also had access to enviable sources to reconstruct the story, including Barents’s own ship’s log; the journals of Jan Huygen van Linschoten — a cartographer who published Portuguese trade-route secrets he’d memorized while serving in India; and the diary of the ship’s officer Gerrit de Veer, who accompanied Barents and perished on the way home during the third expedition." 
  11. ↑ Anna McNeil (2021-01-17). "Sea Control 223 - Icebound: Shipwrecked at the edge if the world with Andrea Pitzer". CIMSEC. Archived from the original on 2021-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20210321001147/https://cimsec.org/author/anna-mcneil/. Retrieved 2021-03-20. "Author Andrea Pitzer joins Sea Control’s Anna McNeil to talk about her recent trip to the Arctic and her new book, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World. From current events to personal testimony, nothing beats firsthand experience and insight into one of the most remote regions of the world." 
  12. ↑ Rich Fisher (2021-02-25). ""Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World"". Public Radio Tulsa. Archived from the original on 2021-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20210311180101/https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/post/icebound-shipwrecked-edge-world#stream/0. Retrieved 2021-03-20. "As was noted by The Wall Street Journal: 'A fascinating modern telling of Barents's expeditions.... Ms. Pitzer presents a compelling narrative situated in the context of Dutch imperial ambition...'" 
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