{"product_id":"the-ravine","title":"The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed","description":"\u003cp\u003eLower, Wendy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2009, the acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHitler’s Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual moment of murder, in this case by German officials and Ukrainian collaborators. A Ukrainian shooter’s rifle is inches from a woman’s head, obscured in a cloud of smoke. The woman is bending forward, holding the hand of a barefoot boy. And—only one of the shocking revelations of Wendy Lower’s brilliant ten-year investigation of this image—the photograph reveals the shins of another child, slipping from the woman’s lap. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWendy Lower’s gripping detective work—in Ukraine, Germany, Slovakia, Israel, and the United States—recovers astonishing layers of detail concerning the open-air massacres in Ukraine. The identities of the victims, of the killers—and, remarkably, of the photographer who openly took the picture, as a secret act of resistance—are dramatically uncovered. Finally, in the hands of this exceptional scholar, a single image unlocks a new understanding of the place of the family unit in the history and aftermath of Nazi genocide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":41348045930530,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41348045963298,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/91hyCM3m8vL._SL1500.jpg?v=1707945252","url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ravine","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}