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Dr. David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Endowed Professor of History and Jewish Studies, CU-Boulder, will present a talk, "The Holocaust Through Soviet Eyes."

In January 1942, a photojournalist working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiia came upon a scene like none he had ever documented.  That day, Soviet press photographers took pictures of the first liberation of a German mass atrocity, where an estimated 7,000 Jews and others were executed. The images this particular photographer, Dmitri Baltermants, took that day would have a long life in shaping the image of Nazi genocide in and against the Soviet Union.  Presenting never before seen photographs, David Shneer's forthcoming book, Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph, shows how Baltermants used the image of a grieving woman to render this gruesome mass atrocity into a transcendentally human tragedy.

Event sponsored by CU Boulder Hillel.

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