On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History

"A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures..."--L'Arche In December 1941, on a shore near the...
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Author: Nadine Fresco
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On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History by Fresco, Nadine

On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History

$71.08

On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History

$71.08
Author: Nadine Fresco
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"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 (Skéde) on the Baltic Sea. In the last photograph of the series, we see the victims' bodies tumbling into the pit.



Author: Nadine Fresco
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 03/07/2021
Pages: 138
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781789209242

About the Author

Nadine Fresco is a French historian and an honorary researcher at the National Center for Scholarly Research in Paris. She is the author of, among other books, Fabrication d'un antisémite (1999), and La Mort des juifs (2008), a collection of texts in which On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History first appeared.


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