TY - BOOK AU - Fresco,Nadine AU - Glowacka,Dorota TI - On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History SN - 9781789208818 AV - DS135.L33 .F747 2021 U1 - 940.531844 23 PY - 2021///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Pictorial works KW - Latvia KW - Liepåaja KW - Liepāja KW - Jews KW - Massacres KW - HISTORY / Holocaust KW - bisacsh KW - baltic region KW - concentration camps KW - death camps KW - european history KW - final solution KW - genocide KW - german history KW - historical photography KW - historical photos KW - history KW - holocaust studies KW - holocaust KW - jewish persecution KW - latvia KW - nazi death squads KW - nazi KW - photoessays KW - photography KW - rare photographs KW - wartime atrocities N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Foreword --; List of Abbreviations --; On the Death of Jews --; Select Bibliography; restricted access N2 - “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 (Liepája), shortly before they were killed in December 1941 in the dunes of Shkede (Škéde) on the Baltic Sea. In the last photograph of the series, we see the victims’ bodies tumbling into the pit UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789208825?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789208825 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789208825/original ER -