Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
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"A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence" (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and family against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.
For more than four hundred years, the Eastern European border town of Buczacz—today part of Ukraine—was home to a highly diverse citizenry. It was here that Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews all lived side by side in relative harmony. Then came World War II, and three years later the entire Jewish population had been murdered by German and Ukrainian police, while Ukrainian nationalists eradicated Polish residents. In truth, though, this genocide didn't happen so quickly.
In Anatomy of a Genocide, Omer Bartov explains that ethnic cleansing doesn't occur as is so often portrayed in popular history, with the quick ascent of a vitriolic political leader and the unleashing of military might. It begins in seeming peace, slowly and often unnoticed, the culmination of pent-up slights and grudges and indignities. The perpetrators aren't just sociopathic soldiers. They are neighbors and friends and family. They are also middle-aged men who come from elsewhere, often with their wives and children and parents, and settle into a life of bourgeois comfort peppered with bouts of mass murder.
For more than two decades Bartov, whose mother was raised in Buczacz, traveled extensively throughout the region, scouring archives and amassing thousands of documents rarely seen until now. He has also made use of hundreds of first-person testimonies by victims, perpetrators, collaborators, and rescuers. Anatomy of a Genocide profoundly changes our understanding of the social dynamics of mass killing and the nature of the Holocaust as a whole. Bartov's book isn't just an attempt to understand what happened in the past. It's a warning of how it could happen again, in our own towns and cities—much more easily than we might think.
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- bioText: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, along with several other well-respected scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine. He has written for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Book Prize for Holocaust Research
"A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence" (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and family against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.
For more than four hundred years, the Eastern European border town of Buczacz—today part of Ukraine—was home to a highly diverse citizenry. It was here that Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews all lived side by side in relative harmony. Then came World War II, and three years later the entire Jewish population had been murdered by German and Ukrainian police, while Ukrainian nationalists eradicated Polish residents. In truth, though, this genocide didn't happen so quickly.
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Brown University historian Bartov challenges the commonly held belief that genocide results when a divisive political leader preaches hatred, backed up by military power. Instead, he argues, genocide works from the bottom up, with friends and neighbors storing up small slights that are easily exploited. To make his point, he focuses on the Eastern European border town of Buczacz, now a part of Ukraine and before the Holocaust home to a peaceable mix of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, chronicling how violence descended and warning how to avoid such situations in the future.
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The tale of one Eastern European town reflects a long history of anti-Semitism and political strife.Bartov (European History/Brown Univ.; Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine, 2007, etc.) draws on historical and archival sources to create a stark portrait of a town in present-day Ukraine, where enmity between Polish and Ukrainian residents, compounded by Russian, Austrian, and German incursions, resulted in violent reactions against the Jewish population. This contribution to Holocaust and genocide studies, in which the author is a respected scholar, is notable for the barbarism that erupted among ordinary men and women against their Jewish neighbors during World War II. Anti-Semitism, however, was rampant much earlier: in a 1924 memoir, a witness reported seeing a Jewish orphanage set on fire by soldiers in search of vodka; in a synagogue courtyard, he "was stunned by a terrifying picture of destruction, vandalism, and cruelty." Houses were filled with raped Jewish women and "men with smashed heads and gouged eyes." Jews became the focus of hatred by Poles who believed that they preferred Austrian rule to Polish independence. Jews, Bartov writes, "were featured as an alien, inassimilable, and potentially subversive element," lumped together with despised Russians and communists. The most hated enemies were Ukrainians, characterized as savage hordes. Ukrainians, for their part, publicized their plight as victims, aligning themselves with Jews. During the war, ethnic hatred erupted into mass murder. Germans created local groups to suppress organized resistance, transforming the Ukrainian militia into "a uniformed district police force." Bartov profusely documents sadistic atrocities that occurred at the hands of soldiers, police, and security forces throughout the war. What he finds most shocking--and readers will agree--is the "astonishing ease" with which "spouses and children, lovers and colleagues, friends and parents, appear to have enjoyed their brief murderous sojourn in the region" as they killed people they knew personally. "For many of them," he writes, "this was clearly the best time of their lives."An important and horrifying contribution to Holocaust studies.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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How did Nazi genocide happen? Barton (history, Brown Univ.; Hitler's Army) answers the question by offering a thorough history of one town in Eastern Europe, where genocide occurred. Buczacz, now in western Ukraine, was home to Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the only Hebrew language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the author's mother. Since the Middle Ages, the town has been populated by Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Orthodox Ukrainians, and Jews who lived side by side and for long periods harmoniously. The three groups acting out their conflicting views of who really belonged in Buczacz in an era of striving nationalism created conditions in which friends, neighbors, and even family members might perpetrate or aid in violence--and debates over which group was a colonizer, oppressor, or victim. By laying out the complex history of the social interactions of ethnic groups spanning a period of time, Bartov demonstrates how overly simple conceptions of Nazi genocide inadequately explain the reality. He utilizes testimonies, interviews, and judicial and other official records from nine countries to add supporting research. VERDICT New thinking about the nature of genocide, recommended especially for nonspecialists.--Paul A. D'Alessandro, Brunswick, ME
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