Golden Harvest
Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 December 2016
- ISBN 9780190614539
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages152 pages
- Size 206x137x12 mm
- Weight 136 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Beginning with one photograph, this moving book evokes the depth and range, as well as the intimacy, of Hitler's final solution in World War Two.
MoreLong description:
It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing?
The starting point of Jan Tomasz and Irena Grudzinska Gross's Golden Harvest, this haunting photograph in fact depicts a group of peasants--"diggers"--atop a mountain of ashes at Treblinka, where some 800,000 Jews were gassed and cremated. The diggers are searching for gold and precious stones that Nazi executioners may have overlooked. The story captured in this grainy black-and-white photograph symbolizes the vast, continent-wide plunder of Jewish wealth that went hand-in-hand with the Holocaust.
The seizure of Jewish assets during World War II occasionally generates widespread attention when Swiss banks are challenged to produce lists of dormant accounts, or national museums are forced to return stolen paintings. But the theft of Europe's Jewish population was not limited to conquering armies, leading banks, or museums. It was perpetrated also by local people, such as those pictured in the photograph. Lyrical and often heartbreaking, A Golden Harvest takes readers across Europe as it exposes the economic ravaging of an entire society. Beginning with a simple group shot, the authors have written a moving book that evokes the depth and range, as well as the intimacy, of the Final Solution.
lucid and chilling book
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Photograph
The Need to Name
Taking over Jewish Property
Photographs and Documentation of the Shoah
The Grounds of Extermination Camps Immediately after the War
The Bones
The Death Camps and the Local Population
Tending One's Garden
Takeover of Jewish property by ordinary people
About the killing of Jews
The Kielce region
"Thick description "
Close-up of a murder scene
Human agency
The peripheries of the Holocaust
Back to photography
Conversations about Jewish property
A certain kind of patriotism
Hunting for Jews
Jews and objects
Schmaltzowanye
Sheltering Jews for payment
An exceptional case
New rules and experts' opinions
Where was the Catholic Church?
Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère
Afterword
Index
