Talk:The Last Jew in Vinnitsa

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spelling[edit]

Vinnitsa, Vinnitsia, Vinnytsia - can we go with the spelling of the article about the city? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 17:56, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Source for "last Jew in Vinnitsa" inscription[edit]

The more reliable sources I found don't mention the supposed writing on the back of the photograph. It seems possible to me that this is a myth that started on the internet 10 or 15 years ago and gained enough traction to be repeated by superficially reliable sources like an op-ed column the The Guardian or the donor's notes in a Kenyon College document collection. OTOH maybe there is an authoritative source which is not Googlable or not in English. jnestorius^(talk) 07:07, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The earliest reference I have found so far is a photograph caption "The Last Jew of Vinnitsa" in

Rittner, Carol; Smith, Stephen David; Steinfeldt, Irena (2000-09-01). The Holocaust and the Christian world: reflections on the past, challenges for the future. Continuum. p. 120.

jnestorius^(talk) 19:53, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

in my opinion there are serious problems in the article. His introduction shows the most "unlikely" version as a given. However, an encyclopaedia should present both versions equally. The most likely, that of Al Moss, where there is a photo of the back, and secondarily the most unlikely, where there is no photo of the back. If we're going to repeat rumors...we cannot talk about credibility MavrosPagos (talk) 19:30, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why not the uncropped version?[edit]

Why is only the cropped version of the photo shown in the article? Why not the entire photo which extends a bit to the left and shows the end of the (rather small) mass grave, whose size cannot be judged properly in this cropped version? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8388:541:E300:119C:5295:2552:781E (talk) 17:18, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New information about location and date of photo[edit]

There seams to be new information about the location and date of this photo: 28 July 1941 in Berdychiv.

Source in German, article from 2 January 2024: https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article249280988/Holocaust-Bildikone-des-Judenmordes-endlich-entschluesselt.html

The article contains a link to original information by a historian. Nankea (talk) 14:13, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The source is this article:

Matthäus, Jürgen (Winter 2023). "'The last Jew in Vinnitsa': Reframing an Iconic Holocaust Photograph". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 37 (3): 349–359. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcad053.

Jo1971 (talk) 17:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]