Erased
Subtitle: vanishing traces of Jewish Galicia in present-day Ukraine
By: Omer Bartov
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780691131214
Subjects: Jews -- Ukraine -- Galicia, Eastern -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Ukraine -- Galicia, Eastern -- History -- 21st century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Galicia, Eastern -- Influence; Galicia, Eastern (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations
Description: In Erased , Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This poignant travelogue reveals the complete erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a fiercely aggressive Ukrainian nationalism. Bartov, a leading Holocaust scholar, discovers that to make sense of the heartbreaking events of the war, he must first grapple with the complex interethnic relationships and conflicts that have existed there for centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and indexes
Table of contents: title: The borderland; title: Travels in the borderland; title: Return