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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed (2021)

Tekijä: Wendy Lower

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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"-- 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.… (lisätietoja)
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  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
This is not an easy read. Lower uncovers remarkable details from a photo taken during WWII of a massacre of Jews in Miropol. She bases her book on interviews of 18 Ukrainians who had witnessed or taken part in the event, along with hundreds of other testimonies from numerous Germans, Slovakians, and Ukrainians who passed through or resided in Miropol and provided important evidence to the massacre. In the hands of Wendy Lower, an exceptional scholar, the single image she had uncovered, provides a new understanding of Nazi genocide. Her story is well deserving of winning the National Jewish Book Award!
  HandelmanLibraryTINR | Jan 25, 2022 |
Very well done. Fascinating approach and angle for explaining Holocaust atrocities by taking a photo found in archives and deconstructing the people in the photo as well as the town and location where the photo was taken. Could have read more about all of the topics she wrote about. Have read a ton of WWII books and it is still amazing that the world stood by while the holocaust still happened. Would like to read more by the author. ( )
  bermandog | Jan 15, 2022 |
I don’t read many books about the Holocaust because they tend to leave me feeling upset and depressed about the cruelties that people are capable of inflicting upon their fellow human beings. But after reading a short blurb somewhere about Wendy Lower’s The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed, I knew I had to read this one.

One day in 2009, author Wendy Lower was shown a photo that had only just recently arrived at this country’s Holocaust Memorial Museum. The picture shows the instant that a Jewish family is being murdered by two German officials and two collaborators from the Ukraine. The eye is immediately drawn to the woman and little boy whose hand she is holding, but the more that Lower looked at the photograph, the more she saw — including another small child partially hidden between the boy and the woman. Lower would go on to study and investigate the photograph for the next ten years, hoping to identify everyone in the picture, including the murderers, but especially the victims whose names had escaped history. The remarkable story that she tells in The Ravine is the result of her dedication to that task.

Despite the impression that most people have nowadays, just over a dozen photographs similar to this one exist. The Germans forbade them being taken, and they were generally careful to make sure that no such self-incriminating evidence was left behind. What makes this particular photograph so important is that”…the photographer testified about this event in the 1950s, stating emphatically that the local killers were Ukrainians who knew some of the victims.”

“This book is about the potential of discovery that exists if we dare look closer. It is also about the voids that exist in the history of genocide. Its perpetrators not only kill but also seek to erase the victims from written records, and even from memory. When we find one trace, we must pursue it, to prevent the intended extinction by countering it with research, education, and memorialization.”

When she began her investigation, Wendy Lower did not know for certain which country these particular murders occurred in, but her diligence and investigatory instincts eventually led her to Miropol, a small town in the Ukraine, and what happened there on October 13, 1941. And as she puts it, “Using hundreds of testimonies of Germans, Slovakians, and Ukrainians who passed through or resided in Miropol, and of the one Jewish survivor, I was able to reconstruct events just before, during, and after the photograph was taken on October 13.”

One of the saddest aspects of Holocaust massacres like this one is that roughly half of the victims have never been named, much less ever appear on any list of the missing. Simply put, no family members survived them, so no one was looking for them after the war. Thus, millions of people disappeared without a trace as if they never existed. But the killers in the photograph did not go missing when the war ended, and Lower reveals what happened to each of them — and whether or not they ever paid a price for what they did.

Lower realizes that photographs like the one in the book are not easy to look at and that they can be used for the wrong purposes, but she also recognizes their power:

“Atrocity images, especially the rare ones that attest to acts of genocide, the crime of all crimes, offend and shame us. When we turn away from them, we promote ignorance. When we display them in museums without captions and download them from the internet with no historical context, we denigrate the victims. And when we stop researching them, we cease to care about historical justice, the threat of genocide, and the murdered missing.”

Bottom Line: The Ravine is more than an impressive study of what one dedicated investigator is capable of revealing under even the most difficult of circumstances. It is a reminder that even though this kind of thing has happened throughout human history, and that the likelihood of it happening again — as it so often has since World War II - is always out there, we cannot close our eyes to it. It will not go away. ( )
  SamSattler | Apr 13, 2021 |
It all started in 2009, when Holocaust historian Lower was shown a photograph depicting the murder of a Jewish woman and a small boy in Ukraine. Lower notes that, while there are many photographs depicting victims of the Holocaust, very few of these photographs show their killers in the act of murder. Lower set out to do what she could to pinpoint the location of the mass shooting depicted in the photograph, identify the photographer, identify the German and Ukrainian killers, identify the victims, identify what was happening outside the borders of the photograph and who else was present at the time, and find out if the killers were still living to be prosecuted for their crime or if any of them were brought to justice before their deaths. In answering these questions, Lower also educates readers in the methodologies that she and other Holocaust researchers use in their work. The emphasis on methodology and the extensive notes section will be useful to scholars and students of the Holocaust.

This review is based on an electronic advance reading copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley. ( )
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Hel-Guedj, Johan-FrédérikKääntäjämuu tekijäeräät painoksetvahvistettu
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Préface
[Pour l'édition française, Johann Chapoutot]

Un très grand petit livre. C'est ce que nous offre l'historienne Wendy Lower, professeure d'histoire contemporaine au Claremont McKenna College (Californie), avec Le Ravin, étude de cas micro-historique sur une image, une photographie, qu'elle développe aux dimensions de la Shoah, dont elle est une spécialiste majeure.
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In August 2009 I was in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, searching for Nazi documentation that might lead to the prosecution of the most prominent SS officer known to be alive in Germany at that time.
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