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The Bowdoin College Holocaust Education Lecture Series Presents Wendy Lower—The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

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Lecture Open to Faculty/Staff Open to Students Open to the Public

Mon, Apr 20, 2026

7:30 PM – 9 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Kresge Auditorium

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Wendy Lower’s latest book, The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed, investigates a single photograph—a rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of a family’s murder in Ukraine. Through years of forensic and archival research, Lower sought to uncover the identities of the photographed and in the process recovered new details about the Nazis’ open-air massacres in eastern Europe, the role of the family unit in Nazi ideology, and a rare case of rescue and postwar justice.

Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. She chairs the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and has published several books on the Holocaust in Ukraine, including Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, and co-edited (with Ray Brandon) Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization. Her work on gender and the Holocaust, Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been translated into twenty-three languages. The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed received the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize and longlisted for a PEN literary award.

The Ravine will be available for purchase at Kresge Auditorium, and Lower will be on hand to sign copies following the talk.

Sponsored by the Gabry Family Fund.
For more information, contact Jenn Berube Lord at jberube@bowdoin.edu or 207-725-3928.
Open to the public free of charge.

A livestream of this talk will be available on Bowdoin's live events website: www.bowdoin.edu/live

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