Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,3 (1997) 366-377
Keywords:
Bruskina, Masha
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Sources
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World War, 1939-1945 Photography
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World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
Abstract:
Examines the widely-publicized photographic images of the public execution of partisans in Nazi-occupied Minsk on 26 October 1941: two men and a woman being led to the gallows. The men were subsequently identified by name and recognized as heroes, while the woman was officially designated "unknown." A journalistic investigation conducted in the 1960s by Lev Arkadyev and Ada Dikhtyar, who interviewed dozens of people, revealed that the woman was a 17-year-old Jewish girl named Masha Bruskina. Despite the evidence, official historiographers, both in the USSR and in post-Soviet Belarus, have refused to recognize a Jewish girl as the heroine and insist that she cannot be identified. Relates Bruskina's role in the Minsk underground. Her courage and composure on the day of the execution was remarkable. This very fact, most probably, does not allow Belorussian historians to recognize the heroine as a Jewess.
Note:
On a young Jewish female partisan who was executed in Minsk in October 1941 (including a photograph of the execution) and postwar Belorussian historiography.
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Another version, with eight photographs, appeared in "History of Photography" 23 (1999).
DOI:
10.1093/hgs/11.3.366
URL:
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