Widely regarded as the most haunting image we have of the Holocaust, the photo of a young boy with his hands up being driven from the Warsaw ghetto has served as a touchstone for everyone from the Nuremberg prosecutors to Elie Wiesel, and from Susan Sontag to revisionist ranters on the web. Yet despite its enduring status in both popular and academic circles, this touchstone of inhumanity has elicited surprisingly little sustained commentary. In this book, Richard Raskin provides the first extended consideration of this photo by examining it from multiple perspectives. He begins by attempting to describe it objectively as a photographic artifact, carefully detailing its components and composition. He then presents a history of how it came about: to illustrate a report that SS General Jugen Stroop compiled in 1943, documenting for Himmler how he had crushed the ghetto uprising that spring. The next chapter is devoted to the claims made for the identity of the boy with his hands up, as well as for the other captives and the SS man with the machine gun. The remainder of the book addresses some representative artistic and polemical uses to which the image has been subjected.
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New York, Courtesy of Pucker Gallery, Tsvi Nussbaum, Samuel Bak, Institute of National Remembrance, Polish Nation, Prosecution of Crimes, Jurgen Stroop, Jewish Chronicle, Private Collection, The Glittering Prizes, Franz Konrad, Marianne Hirsch, International Military Tribunal, Mitko Panov, Sybil Milton, Frederic Raphael, Hotel Polski, Matti-Juhani Karila, Yala Korwin, Alan Schechner, Arthur Schmiontak, David Irving, Gerhard Schoenberner, Holocaust Memorial Museum New!
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An important first step toward understanding this picture involves looking at it closely, so that our subsequent discussion can be grounded in what is actually there, rather than in what we might assume to be there or think we see. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grand operation, ghetto boy, ghetto fighters, ghetto uprising Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Courtesy of Pucker Gallery, Tsvi Nussbaum, Samuel Bak, Institute of National Remembrance, Polish Nation, Prosecution of Crimes, Jurgen Stroop, Jewish Chronicle, Private Collection, The Glittering Prizes, Franz Konrad, Marianne Hirsch, International Military Tribunal, Mitko Panov, Sybil Milton, Frederic Raphael, Hotel Polski, Matti-Juhani Karila, Yala Korwin, Alan Schechner, Arthur Schmiontak, David Irving, Gerhard Schoenberner, Holocaust Memorial Museum New!
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- The Glittering Prizes by Frederic Raphael on 6 pages
- Yellow Star by Gerhard Schoenberner on 4 pages
- Is There Truth in Art? by Herman Rapaport in Front Matter, page 80, and Back Matter
- The Longest War (Picador Books) by Jacobo Timerman on page 171, and Back Matter
- Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel by Glenda Abramson on page 173, and Back Matter
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