The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Lower Wendy
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Lower Wendy A single photograph--an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family--drives a…
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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Lower Wendy
A 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.In 1009, the acclaimed author of Hitler's Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A Ukrainian shooter's rifle is inches from a woman's head, obscured in a cloud of smoke. 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.
And--only one of the shocking revelations of Wendy Lower's brilliant ten-year investigation of this image--the photograph reveals the shins of another child, slipping from the woman's lap.Wendy Lower's gripping The woman is bending forward, holding the hand of a barefoot boy.