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Anatomy of a Genocide - The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (Paperback)
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Anatomy of a Genocide - The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (Paperback)
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Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Book Prize for
Holocaust Research "A substantive contribution to the history of
ethnic strife and extreme violence" (The Wall Street Journal) and a
cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local
level--turning neighbors, friends, and family against one
another--as seen through the eastern European border town of
Buczacz during World War II. For more than four hundred years, the
Eastern European border town of Buczacz--today part of Ukraine--was
home to a highly diverse citizenry. It was here that Poles,
Ukrainians, and Jews all lived side by side in relative harmony.
Then came World War II, and three years later the entire Jewish
population had been murdered by German and Ukrainian police, while
Ukrainian nationalists eradicated Polish residents. In truth,
though, this genocide didn't happen so quickly. In Anatomy of a
Genocide, Omer Bartov explains that ethnic cleansing doesn't occur
as is so often portrayed in popular history, with the quick ascent
of a vitriolic political leader and the unleashing of military
might. It begins in seeming peace, slowly and often unnoticed, the
culmination of pent-up slights and grudges and indignities. The
perpetrators aren't just sociopathic soldiers. They are neighbors
and friends and family. They are also middle-aged men who come from
elsewhere, often with their wives and children and parents, and
settle into a life of bourgeois comfort peppered with bouts of mass
murder. For more than two decades Bartov, whose mother was raised
in Buczacz, traveled extensively throughout the region, scouring
archives and amassing thousands of documents rarely seen until now.
He has also made use of hundreds of first-person testimonies by
victims, perpetrators, collaborators, and rescuers. Anatomy of a
Genocide profoundly changes our understanding of the social
dynamics of mass killing and the nature of the Holocaust as a
whole. Bartov's book isn't just an attempt to understand what
happened in the past. It's a warning of how it could happen again,
in our own towns and cities--much more easily than we might think.
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