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The "Holocaust by Bullets"
(Times of Israel) Matt Lebovic - At the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009, historian Wendy Lower was shown a disturbing image of a Jewish mother and child being executed by several men. In The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed, Lower meticulously probes the background of the photo, which was taken October 13, 1941, in Miropol, Ukraine. Lower compiled the names of 450 Jews murdered that day in Miropol. From eye-witness testimony, Lower learned how Jewish homes were immediately plundered by neighbors, many of whom taunted Jews by name as they were herded to the massacre. The historian came across harrowing testimony about babies bashed against trees. The photo confirms what Nazi leaders in Berlin ordered: Do not waste bullets on children. The perpetrators of the massacre were not German SS but Ukrainians. During the "Holocaust by bullets," 1.5 million Jews were murdered close to their homes.