| Title |
A historical injustice : the case of Masha Bruskina. |
|---|---|
| Original Library/publisher |
Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Oxford History of Photography. London |
| Host Item |
Holocaust and Genocide Studies 11,3 (1997) 366-377 |
| Description |
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. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) On a young Jewish female partisan who was executed in Minsk in October 1941 (including a photograph of the execution) and postwar Belorussian historiography. Another version, with eight photographs, appeared in "History of Photography" 23 (1999). |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990002045980705171 |
| Links |
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MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Bruskina, Masha
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Soviet Union
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Soviet Union -- Influence
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus
- Jews -- Belarus -- Minsk
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance
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