The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
by Wendy Lower
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- 0544828690
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- 9780544828698
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Winner, 2022 National Jewish Book Award
Shortlist, 2022 Wingate Literary Prize
A single photograph--an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family--drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar
In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler's Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual moment of murder, in this case by German officials and Ukrainian collaborators. A Ukrainian shooter's rifle is inches from a woman's head, obscured in a cloud of smoke. She is bending forward, holding the hand of a barefooted little boy. And--only one of the shocking revelations of Wendy Lower's brilliant ten-year investigation of this image--the shins of another child, slipping from the woman's lap.
Wendy Lower's forensic and archival detective work--in Ukraine, Germany, Slovakia, Israel, and the United States--recovers astonishing layers of detail concerning the open-air massacres in Ukraine. The identities of mother and children, of the killers--and, remarkably, of the Slovakian photographer who openly took the image, as a secret act of resistance--are dramatically uncovered. Finally, in the hands of this brilliant exceptional scholar, a single image unlocks a new understanding of the place of the family unit in the ideology of Nazi genocide.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
- Author
- Wendy Lower
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
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- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0544828690
- ISBN 13
- 9780544828698
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- Forensics,
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- Journalism;
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