Seeing the Holocaust in Grief
Journal: Grief
Year: 2020

In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited its new acquisition, <italic>Grief</italic>, alongside iconic photographs of camp survivors. It also appeared in major photography exhibitions related to war and atrocities. Baltermants’s Kerch photographs, including <italic>Grief</italic>, are also in Holocaust archives in Washington, DC, and Jerusalem. The author returns to the wartime crime scene in Kerch, where locals have commemorated the mass atrocity at the trench ever since the war. In 1975, an