How a barbaric photograph a Jewish mother and two children being executed inspired a historian
Daily MailThe raw horror you are seeing in the photograph below — if you can bear to look — is the very last moment on earth of a Jewish family, teetering on the edge of a death pit as Nazi executioners with rifles fire from behind at point-blank range. The raw horror you are seeing in the photograph — if you can bear to look — is the very last moment on earth of a Jewish family, teetering on the edge of a death pit as Nazi executioners with rifles fire from behind at point-blank range Here is the Holocaust, close up and personal, as we have rarely seen it before. The picture shocked even experienced and expert Holocaust historian Professor Wendy Lower when she first saw it They enlisted local militias, paramilitaries and policemen willing to join in the dirty work — like the two riflemen in soft field caps and greatcoats in the foreground of the photograph. When they came to the site, he shot off five pictures from 20 ft away — one was the photograph that, many years later, launched Lower’s investigation.
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