| Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine Subjects: Jews -- Ukraine -- Galicia Eastern -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Ukraine -- History -- Galicia Eastern -- 21st Century; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Ukraine -- Galicia Eastern -- Influence; Galicia Eastern (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations; 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. Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. His books include Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation and Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich . |