Survivors in Ukraine

Stephen Shore travelled through Ukraine with a guide and translator to visit the homes of Holocaust survivors. Unlike Jews in many other countries, those in Ukraine where not taken to Europe's concentration and death camps. They were taken to killing sites - ditches or pits near their homes - and executed by Nazi death squads. Shore's photographs portray twenty-two Jewish men and women who fled Ukraine during the Second World War, going east on foot or by horse-drawn cart.
Returning home after the war, many found their houses destroyed, and themselves ineligible for the restitution afforded concentation camp survivors. Shore has created a visual record of those who survived and the quotidian details of the lives they have built - capturing their homes, their families, the surrounding landscapes, and their humble belongings. With an essay that interweaves history and the survivor's stories by The New Yorker staff writer, Jane Kramer, this book is a powerful and moving testment to human resilience.