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

In her May 7th talk, Dr. Wendy Lower will speak about her most recent publication, The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed (2021). In the book, Lower documents her multi-year effort to investigate a massacre that took place in Miropol, Ukraine in October 1941. Lower utilized photographic evidence, witness testimony, archival records in numerous countries, genealogical records, and forensic science to carefully document the massacre, identify the perpetrators and their accomplices, and seek to restore the personhood of the victims, and document how genocides happen. 
 
Dr. Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College and the author of numerous award-winning articles, books chapters, and books. Dr. Lower is one the most preeminent scholars of the Holocaust in the United States today, and her meticulous research has deepened and broadened historical knowledge about this enormously important and complex event. Several organizations have supported Dr. Lower’s work, including the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Historical Institute, and the German National Research Foundation.

There will be a Q&A after her talk.  Questions may be sent to events@oregonstate.edu, preferably by May 3.