9780544828698-0544828690-The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

ISBN-13: 9780544828698
ISBN-10: 0544828690
Edition: First Edition
Author: Wendy Lower
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780544828698
ISBN-10: 0544828690
Edition: First Edition
Author: Wendy Lower
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover 272 pages

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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed (ISBN-13: 9780544828698 and ISBN-10: 0544828690), written by authors Wendy Lower, was published by Mariner Books in 2021. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Germany (European History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Germany books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 ofHitler'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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