Ashes of Babi Yar

Antonella Salomoni is a professor of contemporary history in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Calabria, where she teaches the history of human rights and social services, as well as cultures of peace. She also teaches the history of the Shoah and genocides in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna.Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator from the Italian and the French. The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, he has been shortlisted for both the PEN and ALTA Italian translation awards. He is the English-language editor of FMR magazine.

• Preface Note on Transliteration Introduction 1 Form and Truth 2 Return, Reconstruction, Recognition 3 Transforming Space 4 Acts of Justice in Poetry, Music, Prose 5 Profane, Erase, Redeem 6 Claiming the Place Epilogue Notes Index

“A comprehensive study admirable for its documentation, articulation, and narrative skill. . . . An exemplary work of history.” - La Lettura, praise for the Italian edition“[Salomoni] has long dealt with the relationship between the USSR and the Holocaust, and rebuilds in this book with rich documentation what happened in those days. Not only that: the book gives an account of the erasure of memory of this incident by the Germans and above all by the Russians, who for decades viewed what happened as a massacre of Soviet citizens, obscuring the fact that the victims were all Jews.” - Avvenire, praise for the Italian edition