Erased

Introduction ix Maps xviii Chapter I: The Borderland 1 Chapter II: Travels in the Borderland 11 L'viv -- Sambir -- Drohobych -- Stryi -- Bolekhiv -- Ivano-Frankivs'k -- Kolomyia -- Kosiv -- Kuty -- Horodenka -- Husiatyn -- Chortkiv -- Zolotyi Potik -- Buchach -- Monastyrys'ka -- Ternopil' -- Berezhany -- Zolochiv -- Brody -- Zhovkva Chapter III: Return 199 Acknowledgments 213 Additional Readings 215 About the Author 225 Index of Names 227 Index of Place-Names 229

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".

"Bartov tells us in Erased...that his tour was prompted by a wish to rediscover the Jewish world his mother had known as a child and to establish how the region's Jews had died. But as his inquiry proceeds, its focus changed. Instead of adding to the vast corpus of Holocaust literature or celebrating the hayday of Galician Jewry, he has produced a study of collective denial and the means by which embarrassing facts about the past can be expunged from local memory. Bartov's account of his experiences in the field makes a disturbing story"--Philip Longworth, Times Literary Supplement "This small volume is an important addition to contemporary Jewish travel literature. Bartov writes with clarity and palpable outrage, as he describes the pattern he found repeated almost everywhere: Virtually all traces of the Jews and their history have been erased. This book is an often brilliant and impassioned response to the annihilation from memory of the last traces of the Jews who lived for generations in the Ukraine. It is a valuable book both about the destruction of the past and an attempt to preserve memory into the future."--Jewish Book World "A book that in its mixture of description and emotional commentary seeks to bring to light the shear success of efforts to expunge the Jewish past from eastern Galicia."--Simon J. Rabinovitch, Haaretz "An unsettling and highly revealing book... The local people [of Buchach, Ukraine], while devoted to their nation's history, have developed an amnesia about their one-time Jewish neighbours. Bartov writes about this phenomenon with an understated emotion, fact piled upon fact, until his evidence becomes overwhelming... There are Ukrainians today who refuse to take part in consigning the local Jews to oblivion, just as (Bartov notes) there were Ukrainians who risked everything to save Jews during the Holocaust... But, in Bartov's account, the silence is close to deafening and the reasons for it are painfully obvious."--Robert Fulford, The