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When Genocide Is Caught on Film
German guards and Ukrainian militia shooting a Jewish family in Miropol, Ukraine, in 1941. In “The Ravine,” Wendy Lower investigates the figures in this photo, hoping to discover who, exactly, the Jewish victims were and to expose their killers.Credit.Security Services Archive
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By Wendy Lower
“What does one do upon discovering a photograph that documents a murder?” Wendy Lower asks in her new book, “The Ravine.” Lower, a historian of the Holocaust who has worked with Nazi hunters, ponders a photograph, taken in October 1941, in the once thriving, now desolate Ukrainian town of Miropol. It shows several men Ukrainians and Germans shooting a woman who, bent over, holds the hand of a small, barefoot boy just before they tumble into a death pit. (The boy would be buried alive, not shot, since Nazi protocol forbade wasting bullets on Jewish children.) Smoke from the gun blasts obscures the face of the woman