Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing?

The starting pointof Jan Tomasz and Irena Grudzinska Gross's Golden Harvest, this haunting photog...