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The ravine : a family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed
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- ISBN: 9780544828698
- ISBN: 0544828690
- ISBN: 9780544828711
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258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1: The photograph -- 2: Miropol -- 3: The Aktion: the German killers -- 4: The photographer -- 5: The search for the family -- 6: Excavating history -- 7: The missing missing -- 8: Justice -- Epilogue: The shoes. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 940.5318 L917r 2021 (Text) | 33126024093431 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | 940.5318 L917r 2021 (Text) | 33126024093399 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The award-winning author of Hitlerâs Furies draws on years of forensic and archival detective work to illuminate the open-air massacres of World War II Ukraine as reflected in a Holocaust Memorial Museum photograph of a family murder. 35,000 first printing. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Baker & Taylor
This book is about the potential of discovery that exists, if we choose to delve into it. It is also about the voids that exist in the history of genocide. Perpetrators of genocide not only kill, they seek to erase the victims from the written records and even from memory. When we find one trace, we must pursue it both to prevent the intended extinction, and to counter it through research, education, and memorialization. - HARPERCOLL
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.
- HoughtonA single photograph'an exceptionally rare 'action shot' documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family'drives a riveting forensic investigation by a gifted Holocaust scholar.
- HoughtonA 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.
- HoughtonA single photograph—an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family—drives a riveting forensic investigation by a gifted Holocaust scholar.
- HoughtonA 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.
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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.   Â
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