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Golden Harvest - Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust (Paperback)
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Golden Harvest - Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust (Paperback)
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It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at
harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with
their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally
notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed
innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are
we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing?
The starting point of Jan Tomasz and Irena Grudzinska Gross's
Golden Harvest, this haunting photograph in fact depicts a group of
peasants-"diggers"-atop a mountain of ashes at Treblinka, where
some 800,000 Jews were gassed and cremated. The diggers are
searching for gold and precious stones that Nazi executioners may
have overlooked. The story captured in this grainy black-and-white
photograph symbolizes the vast, continent-wide plunder of Jewish
wealth that went hand-in-hand with the Holocaust. The seizure of
Jewish assets during World War II occasionally generates widespread
attention when Swiss banks are challenged to produce lists of
dormant accounts, or national museums are forced to return stolen
paintings. But the theft of Europe's Jewish population was not
limited to conquering armies, leading banks, or museums. It was
perpetrated also by local people, such as those pictured in the
photograph. Lyrical and often heartbreaking, A Golden Harvest takes
readers across Europe as it exposes the economic ravaging of an
entire society. Beginning with a simple group shot, the authors
have written a moving book that evokes the depth and range, as well
as the intimacy, of the Final Solution.
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