“The Holocaust by Bullets in Ukraine”
“The Holocaust by Bullets in Ukraine: A Photograph, a Family, a Massacre Revealed,” with Dr. Wendy Lower
Tue., Sep. 8 at 7:30 via Zoom (Click to register for free)
Join us for a fascinating discussion in preparation for our forthcoming exhibition, “The Landscape of our Memory.” Please join us for the opening on Wed., Sep 16 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the Kresge Gallery.
Dr. Lower’s latest book, The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed, investigates a single photograph—a rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of a family’s murder in Ukraine. Through years of forensic and archival research, Lower sought to uncover the identities of the photographed and in the process recovered new details about the Nazis’ Holocaust by Bullets in eastern Europe, the role of the family unit in Nazi ideology, and a rare case of rescue and postwar justice.
Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. She chairs the Academic Committee 
and has published several books on the Holocaust in Ukraine including Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (2005), and co- editor (with Ray Brandon) of Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization (2008). Her work on gender and the Holocaust, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been translated into 23 languages. Lower’s The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed (2021) received the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize, and longlisted for a PEN. Lower just co-authored with Jonathan Petropoulos, Himmler’s Last Days: The End of Nazi Terror, appearing in 2027 with Mariner Books.
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