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How the Camera Sometimes Lies.(Photographing the Holocaust by Janina Struk)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Byline: Ginanne Brownell
In one photo, a group of men and a boy stand naked before a ditch as soldiers point rifles at them. 'Sniatyn--tormenting Jews before execution. II.V. 1943,' reads the caption in Polish. But the caption is almost surely wrong; historical documents prove that all Jews from Sniatyn were deported to a concentration camp by September 1942. How should one interpret a photo based on a false premise? That is the provocative question at the center of Janina Struk's 'Photographing the Holocaust' (251 pages. I.B. Tauris). Arguing that pictures can distort the truth, Struk, who has analyzed hundreds of thousands of Holocaust photos, describes some of the most intriguing, many terribly worn or surviving without any contextual information.
Struk's aim is to ...
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