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A photograph—a rare "action shot" documenting a family's murder during World War II—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.
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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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Page references in italics refer to photographs.
A
Aktion meaning, 44
See also mass murder
Aleichem, Sholem, 26–27
Altskan, Vadim
photograph (mass killing, October 13, 1941) and, 2
position/expertise, 2
Ansky, S., 26, 95–96, 194–95 n26
arendia system, 23–24
Arendt, Hannah, 92
Aufbau (newspaper), 145
Auschwitz-Birkenau, 50, 87, 105, 111, 112, 145, 176, 177, 220–22 n114
B
Babi Yar, 13, 35, 46, 122–23, 141, 237 n162
Baer, Ulrich, 19
Banská Bystrica, 66, 75, 76, 82–83, 88, 89, 212–13 n79
Belzec gassing facility, 50, 96, 177
Beneš, Edvard, 88
Berghof compound, Alps, 1
Between Two Worlds/The Dybbuk (play by Ansky), 26, 95
Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau, 105, 177, 220–22 n114
gassing facility, 19, 50, 105, 111, 175, 177, 242 n175
Bitman, Dr., 133–35, 134
Black Book of Soviet Jewry, The, 150
Blekhman, Ludmilla
betrayal/Nadia and, 140
death, 46, 151
on Germans in Miropol, 27
photograph of sister, 140
postwar, 139–40
surviving Miropol mass murder/parents, 27, 46, 53, 60, 74, 104–5, 139, 151, 216 n105
testimony of, 46, 64, 164
Blobel, Paul
mass shootings cover-up, 129
mass shootings organization, 129
Block, Josefine, 243 n176
Bourke-White, Margaret, 167
Brady, Mathew, 92
Brontzovskaya, Esya
background/Vaselyuk family, 100, 102
Miropol/murdered in her bed, 103, 146, 147, 205 n55
Browning, Christopher
Nazi decision making/Jewish genocide, 47, 50
reconstructing micro-histories, 42–43, 191 n18
timing of Jews killed, 189–90 n15
Buchenwald, 167
Budnitskaya, Svetlana
photo ...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- The Photograph
- Miropol
- The Aktion: The German Killers
- The Photographer
- The Search for the Family
- Excavating History
- The Missing Missing
- Justice
- Epilogue: The Shoes
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Sample Chapter from HITLER’S FURIES
- Buy the Book
- About the Author
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