In this brilliant, poignant book, David Shneer narrates the biographies of this photograph and the person who captured it. In doing so, Shneer also provides a brief history of photography within the Stalinist and post-Stalinist USSR, the importance of Kerch within the history of the Great Patriotic War, and the meanings of the Holocaust in Russia.
David Shneer is the Louis P. Singer Chair of Jewish History and Professor of History, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of several prize-winning books including Through Soviet Jewish Eyes, New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora, and Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture.