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On the Death of Jews - Photographs and History (Paperback)
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On the Death of Jews - Photographs and History (Paperback)
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"A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific
pictures..."-L'Arche In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian
city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local
collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews. The
majority were women and children, most men having already been shot
during the summer. The perpetrators took pictures of the December
killings. These pictures are among the rare photographs from the
first period of the extermination, during which over 800 000 Jews
from the Baltic to the Black Sea were shot to death. By showing the
importance of photography in understanding persecution, Nadine
Fresco offers a powerful meditation on these images while
confronting the essential questions of testimony and guilt. From
the forward by Dorota Glowackay: Straddling the boundary between
historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text
unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust
photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are
reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many
well-known images: synagogues and Torah scrolls burning on the
night of Kristallnacht; deportations to the ghettos and the camps;
and, finally, mass executions in the killing fi elds of Eastern
Europe. The unique set of photographs included in On the Death of
Jews shows groups of women and children from Liepaja (Liepaja),
shortly before they were killed in December 1941 in the dunes of
Shkede (Skede) on the Baltic Sea. In the last photograph of the
series, we see the victims' bodies tumbling into the pit.
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