title: Grief
abstract: In January 1942, Soviet photographers came upon a scene like none they had ever documented. That day, they took pictures of the first liberation of a German mass atrocity site, where an estimated seven thousand Jews and others were executed at a trench near Kerch on the Crimean peninsula. Dmitri Baltermants, a photojournalist working for the Soviet newspaper <italic>Izvestiia</italic>, took pictures that day that would have a long life in shaping the image of Nazi genocide in and against the Sov
journal: Oxford University Press eBooks