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Praise for the French edition: Demonstrating with rigor the perversity of revisionism, in particular its biased use of sources, [Fresco] also reveals intellectual genealogy. Le Monde A meticulous and shocking investigation of eight horrific pictures, in which the progressive revelation of the truth is reminiscent of Daniel Mendelssohn's Les disparus L'Arche Emotion, sensitivity, and suffering are not the enemies of precision or historical rigor and can sometimes make it more substantial, even more accurate. This is what Nadine Fresco manages to do with strength and brilliance, through a steady effort of writing, in this moving book. Politis It is on the basis of these terrible photos that Nadine Fresco will examine the persecution to which the Jews have been subjected over the centuries in order to achieve the unspeakable murderous madness of the Shoah. ArtPress Nadine Fresco addresses the major problems posed today by the history of genocide: responsibility and implementation of the decision, the abundance of countries where these massacres were perpetrated, the extent of extermination, and remembrance, particularly in German society after the Second World War. L'Ours

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Nadine Fresco is a French historian and an honorary researcher at the National Center for Scholarly Research in Paris. She is the author of Fabrication d'un antise mite (1999), and La Mort des juifs (2008), a collection of texts in which On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History first appeared. She is co-editor of the scholarly journal Le Genre humain and co-editor, with Martine Leibovici, of Anne-Lise Stern's Le Savoir-deporte. Camps, histoire, psychanalyse (2004).

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