Bibliograph

The ravine, a family, a photograph, a holocaust massacre revealed, Wendy Lower

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Label

The ravine, a family, a photograph, a holocaust massacre revealed, Wendy Lower

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The ravine

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Wendy Lower

Sub title

a family, a photograph, a holocaust massacre revealed

Summary

A book about a terrible photograph - an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine, 1941. By concentrating carefully on a single image the larger horror of the genocide is brought into sharp focus. The terrible mass shootings in Poland and the Ukraine are often neglected in studies of the Holocaust, because the perpetrators were meticulously careful to avoid leaving any evidence of their actions. Wendy Lower stumbled across one such piece of evidence - a photograph documenting the shooting of a mother and her children and the men who killed them and has crafted a forensically brilliant and moving study that brings the larger horror of the genocide into focus. One of the most compelling themes to emerge from her investigations in Ukraine, Slovakia, Germany and the USA is the identity and the surprising role of the photographer who recorded the killings. He must, she assumed, have been part of the Nazi organisation of genocide. The truth was different..

Target audience

adult

Classification