The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Contributor(s): Lower, Wendy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0544828690 ISBN-13: 9780544828698 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Jewish - General |
Dewey: 940.531 |
LCCN: 2020023336 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 272 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |