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Spring 1944 A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers?

Three generations later, an Israeli woman and a British man of Ukrainian origins set out to find out how their families were implicated in this crime. They also discover how this untold murder has warped their own lives.


Narrated by an unnamed historian, and based on fragments of memories, testimonies, diaries, letters and confessions, this novel seeks to fill a gap in the historical record of the Holocaust by reimagining those who were murdered and erased from memory, and to shed light on the transgenerational effects of trauma.


Omer Bartov was born in Israel and teaches history in the United States. His mother emigrated from Galicia to Palestine before World War II. Most of the rest of his family were murdered under unknown circumstances in the Holocaust.

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  • ISBN-13: 9789493276697
  • ISBN-10: 9493276694
  • Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
  • Publish Date: January 2023
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.48 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.69 pounds
  • Page Count: 210

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