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In the summer of 2016 acclaimed archaeologist Richard Freund and his team made news worldwide when they discovered an escape tunnel from the Ponar burial pits in Lithunia. This Holocaust site where more than 100,000 people perished is usually remembered for the terrible devastation that happened there. In the midst of this devastation, the discovery of an escape tunnel reminds us of the determination and tenacity of the people in the camp and the hope they continued to carry.
The Archaeology of the Holocaust takes readers out to the field with Freund and his multi-disciplinary research group as they uncover the evidence of the Holocaust, focusing on sites in Lithuania, Poland, and Greece in the past decade. Using forensic detective work, Freund tells the micro- and macro-histories of sites from the Holocaust as his team covers excavations and geo-physical surveys done at four sites in Poland, four sites in Rhodes, and 15 different sites in Lithuania with comparisons of some of the work done at other sites in Eastern Europe. The book contains testimonies of survivors, photographs, information about a variety of complementary geo-science techniques, and information gleaned from pin-point excavations. It serves as an introduction to the Holocaust and explains aspects of the culture lost in the Holocaust through the lens of archaeology and geo-science.
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: What If: Geo-Science and Archaeology
Chapter 2: Discoveries in the Archaeology of the Holocaust
Chapter 3: An Archaeological Discovery "Hidden" in Plain Sight
Chapter 4: The Significance of Tunnels: Geo-science and Archaeology From the Ancient World to the Holocaust
Chapter 5: Why I Came to Rhodes
Chapter 6: The Secret of Jewish Rhodes
Chapter 7: The Origins of the "Final Solution" in a Forest and a Fort in Lithuania
Chapter 8: The Road to Vilna
Chapter 9: An Altruistic Nazi and the Descendants of Hope
Chapter 10: Why the Discovery of the "Holocaust Escape Tunnel" gives the World Hope
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