Wendy Lower

Wendy Lower, Ph.D. is the John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. Lower chairs the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and previously served as Acting Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the USHMM (2016-2018). Dr. Lower is the author of Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (2005), The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia (2011); and co-editor (with Ray Brandon) of Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization (2008). Her book 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. The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed, was published in February 2021 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and received the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category, and has been shortlisted for the Wingate Prize, and longlisted for a PEN

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Wendy Lower and her fellow pointing at the map in the car

The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

Wednesday, April 27, 2022
12:30 to 2pm EDT

Online

A photograph at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum sent Wendy Lower in search for the identities of the victims, of the killers—and, remarkably, of the photographer.

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Wendy Lower

John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College

Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies; Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

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