Golden Harvest

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Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) Irena Grudzinska Gross (Associate Research Scholar, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University)

Golden Harvest

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ISBN: 9780199731671

Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University), Irena Grudzinska Gross (Associate Research Scholar, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University)

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Oxford University Press
13 April 2012

Photographic reportage; History; The Holocaust

It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the ""crops"" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The starting pointof Jan Tomasz and Irena Grudzinska Gross's Golden Harvest, this haunting photograph in fact depicts a group of peasants--""diggers""--atop a mountain of ashes at Treblinka, where some 800,000 Jews were gassed and cremated. The diggers are searching for gold and precious stones that Nazi executioners may have overlooked. The story captured in this grainy black-and-white photograph symbolizes the vast, continent-wide plunder of Jewish wealth that went hand-in-hand with the Holocaust. The seizure of Jewish assets during World War II occasionally generates widespread attention when Swiss banks are challenged to produce lists of dormant accounts, or national museums are forced to return stolen paintings. But the theft of Europe's Jewish population was not limited to conquering armies, leading banks, or museums. It was perpetrated also by local people, such as those pictured in the photograph. Lyrical and often heartbreaking, A Golden Harvest takes readers across Europe as it exposes the economic ravaging of an entire society. Beginning with a simple group shot, the authors have written a moving book that evokes the depth and range, as well as the intimacy, of the Final Solution.

By: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies Professor of Politics and European Studies New York University), Irena Grudzinska Gross (Associate Research Scholar, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780199731671
ISBN 10: 0199731675
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 13 April 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Golden Harvest

"""lucid and chilling book"" --The New Yorker ""extraordinarily powerful account"" --Neal Gendler, The American Jewish World ""[Golden Harvest] is a remarkable, stunning work."" --Gila Wertheimer, Chicago Jewish Star ""Starting from a disturbed posed photograph of paesant gleaners in search of ""post-Jewish"" gold in the soil of Treblinka death camp, Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzinska Gross have created in this profoundly moving volume a chilling, sometimes shocking, passionate, and yet always balanced examination of the extent to which plunder of Jewish possesion was often a communal enterprise in wartime and post-war Poland."" --Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita, University of North Carolina ""Jan and Irena Gross guide us expertly through the ""Heart of Darkness"" that was wartime Poland. Using a single, deeply disturbing photograph, this book captures brilliantly the whole terrifying rapaciousness of Polish -- and European -- society as the Jews face the specter of elimination."" --Norman M. Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University"