It all fell apart
Abigail Green: Pogroms in Ukraine, 21 July 2022
In the Midst of Civilised Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-21 and the Onset of the Holocaust
by Jeffrey Veidlinger.
Picador, 480 pp., £30, November 2021,978 1 5098 6744 8 Show More
by Jeffrey Veidlinger.
Picador, 480 pp., £30, November 2021,
“... to his friend Ludwig Frankl in Vienna, ‘rather the death of Ugolino [by starvation].’ For Jeffrey Veidlinger, it came when he found a memorial book commemorating ‘the memory of the holy souls who perished during the terrible slaughter that befell the Jews of Proskuriv’. The book’s iconography is indeed eerily familiar: Hebrew lettering ... ”
