On the Death of Jews
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baltic region
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concentration camps
death camps
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european history
final solution
genocide
german history
historical photography
historical photos
history
holocaust
holocaust studies
jewish persecution
latvia
nazi
nazi death squads
photoessays
photography
rare photographs
wartime atrocities
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- ISBN 9781789208818
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2021
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi death squads and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews, the majority of whom were women and children, most men having already been shot during the summer. The murderers took pictures of the December killings. These photographs are among the very rare pictures from the first period of the extermination, during which more than a million 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 the images while confronting the essential questions of testimony and guilt.
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.
