Spring 1944 A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village.
Most of the rest of his family were murdered under unknown circumstances in the Holocaust..
His mother emigrated from Galicia to Palestine before World War II.
Omer Bartov was born in Israel and teaches history in the United States.
Narrated by an unnamed historian, and based on fragments of memories, testimonies, diaries, letters and confessions, this novel seeks to fill a gap in the historical record of the Holocaust by reimagining those who were murdered and erased from memory, and to shed light on the transgenerational effects of trauma.
They also discover how this untold murder has warped their own lives.
Who were they? Who were the killers? Three generations later, an Israeli woman and a British man of Ukrainian origins set out to find out how their families were implicated in this crime.
Spring 1944 A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village
