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1968130633Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union 1968. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Staple bound pamphlet with black and white illustrations. No marks light shelf wear. Please email for photos. Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union paperback
1968267936Madison: Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union 1968. Pamphlet. 24p. wraps very good condition 5.5x8.5 inches. Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union unknown
199465746Auvers-sur-Oise France: National Council of Resistance of Iran Foreign Affairs Committee 1994. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Page 94 blank some footnotes appear to be missing. x 161 p. Includes illustrations. Notes. This tract presents the case for the National Council of Resistance. It argued that for ten years the State Department had clung to a dozen unfounded alklegations against the Resistance movement. National Council of Resistance of Iran, Foreign Affairs Committee paperback
195106106New York: Resistance Magazine 1951. 4to; stapled wrappers 20 pp. A hint of rubbing to wrappers; some very shallow grazing to top rear wrapper but still about Near Fine. Printed by Libertarian Press - A Workers Cooperative Glen Gardner N.J. Any issue uncommon in commerce. Goldwater 226 A single issue of the anarchist review which began as "Why A Bulletin of Free Inquiry" in 1942 and changed names to Resistance in 1947. Content for this issue includes "The Politics of Permanent War" unattributed "The President's Order of March 31 1951" by Paul Goodman "Challenging the Inherited Ways" on anarchism by D.E. "Political Behavior in the Concentration Camps - 2 Views" by Sander Katz and David Wieck secretary of the Resistance Group a letter from David and Elizabeth Dellinger on behalf of Fritz Seifried who was jailed for refusing to send his children to public school an open letter printed in Freie Arbeiter Stimme by Nathan Chofshi titled "State Versus Commune in Israel" a reprinted article from Le Liebertaire in Paris titled "Heroic Resistance in Hungary" book reviews and a tribute to Errico Malatesta. New York: Resistance Magazine unknown
1968List3514New York: The Resistance 1968. Single sided flyer 8 ½ x 11 fine condition. Fine. A flyer for a protest at the Newark Selective Service Building organized by The Resistance on May 6 1968. The bulk of the flyer reproduces the poem “I sing of Olaf glad and big†by e.e. cummings a poem themed around a conscientious objector. The flyer printed by The Resistance describes C.J. Hinke’s public refusal to register. Hinke was known for documenting and supporting conscientious objectors promoting nonviolent resistance and connecting American antiwar activism to global pacifist networks. The Newark action reflected strategies that aligned closely with his outlook: refusal of military service public challenge to conscription systems and solidarity with those facing prosecution for draft resistance. The Resistance unknown
1992x-1851668861Chapman & Hall 1992. Hardcover. New. 367 pages. 9.60x6.64x1.05 inches. Chapman & Hall hardcover
19712090202118202711Yamatoshobo 1971. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Yamatoshobo paperback
19682092902137305891Bijutsu shubbansha 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Bijutsu shubbansha paperback
1978131130937Chicago IL: Resistance 1978. Paperback. Very Good. Vol. 5 No. 9. Tabloid format. Marginal doodles to front wrap. Rare Iranian student publication headlined "Iran in Flames of Revolution / Shah's downfall Imminent. Resistance paperback
19522081002108700653Otsukishoten 1952. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 269 Size: B6 Number of books: 1 Otsukishoten paperback
199343370Berlin: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand 1993. 1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers 8vo 192 pages. Includes illustrations. 22 cm. In German. Title translates as "Resistance in Wilmersdorf a neighborhood in Berlin. A Series on the Resistance in Berlin from 1933-1945. Part 7.â€<br> Includes bibliographical references pages 174-182 and indexes.<br> ISBN: 3926082038; 9783926082039 <br> <br> “In her 192-page book “Resistance in Wilmersdorf".Felicitas Bothe-von-Richthofen documents the many acts people were able to undertake against a criminal social system. The chapter 'Unsung Heroes' recounts the stories of Berliners who hid refugees: '.and the many who came under the code name 'Black' who stayed with me for one or more nights or received other assistance because as undocumented immigrants they had no ration cards. They all needed clothing. Sometimes they came simply to wash the clothes they were wearing and to wash themselves.' Ms. Blochwitz known by the code name 'Black' helped many refugees. But she was not alone; in Berlin approximately 1400 people who found shelter with private individuals survived the Nazi terror.<br> In Wilmersdorf the artists' colony at Laubenheimer Platz today: Ludwig-Barnay-Platz was considered a place of politically conscious confrontation with fascism. The 'Professional Association of German Stage Performers' and the 'Professional Association of German Writers' built three apartment blocks for their members in the late 1920s. By the spring of 1933 over 300 artists and left-wing intellectuals lived there including Ernst Bloch and Johannes R. Becher . Nazi jargon for this residential area was the 'Red Block.' To protect themselves from SA members the artists organized a self-defense force. Solidarity within the artists' colony soon came to an end after January 30 1933 and many residents fled into exile.<br> Flight is certainly not the most extreme form of protest. Hildegard Henschel the wife of the last chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin during the Nazi era observed the deportation of the first Jews from the Grunewald S-Bahn and freight station in October 1941: 'SS officers some equipped with riding whips supervised the loading of the cars. The victims’ composure was admirable; everyone knew that resistance was impossible the only possible form of defiance was suicide. But if suicide failed it later led to accelerated evacuation.’†Translated from the German. Thomas Nagel in TAZ December 22 1993<br> <br> OCLC: 35138666<br> Anti-fascist ex-library copy with stamps and spine label. Otherwise Very Good Condition. Holo2-163-20. Berlin: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand unknown
192943441Frankfurt a.M.: M.A. Wahrmann 1929. First edition. Original paper wrappers 8vo 28 pages. 23 cm. In German with a bit of Biblical Hebrew. Title translates as "A Matter of Destiny for the Jewish People." Includes bibliographical references.<br> <br> German Zionist pamphlet by Blatt a German-Jewish intellectual former communist and member of the resistance against the Nazis who ultimately escaped through China to Australia.<br> In Australia Blatt lived a life of relative silence and obscurity regarding his wartime experiences until his story was researched and published by award-winning writer Alex Miller whom the Guardian called "one of Australia's finest novelists." Miller writes that Blatt the subject of Miller's 2020 book "Max" played a key role in Miller's desire to become a writer. <br> See the Guardian's review of "Max" at <br> www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/30/max-by-alex-miller-review-a-compelling-and-tender-story-of-one-mans-hidden-history .<br> <br> SUBJECTS: Zionism. Jewish question. Orthodox Judaism. OCLC: 27879677<br> Slight crease to front cover Very Good Condition. GER-61-2-XOBR-'aeccmgg. Frankfurt a.M.: M.A. Wahrmann unknown
196868144Newport England: The Ceramic Book Company 1968. First edition inscribed association copy. Leather Bound. Very Good . SIGNED by W. D. John and inscribed by Leslie Joseph. 97 pages of text. Quarto 31 cm Elegantly bound by Brian Frost and Company Bath England in brown leather with raised bands a gilt stamped title and floral designs on the spine and double gilt ruled borders on the boards. Turn-ins gilt. With very light wear to the extremities including an almost invisible moisture ring to the front board. The pages are clean and bright. With one hundred and eighty illustrations of which forty are in color. One in an edition limited to 1000 copies.<br /> <br /> Billingsley is considered one of the foremost names in British porcelain. His remarkable ceramic achievements and accomplishments have been recognized and held in high esteem continuously by both aficionados and technical specialists alike since the year 1790 when as a young craftsman at the renowned Derby China Factory he was suddenly called upon to assume the role of head flower painter in completing an important order for the matching of some valuable early Chelsea plates with profuse botanical plant decoration. <br /> <br /> This copy is signed by W. H. John on the front flyleaf. It is also inscribed by Sir Leslie Joseph to the Duchess of Bedford Nicole Russell: "Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford from Leslie Joseph." Nicole Russell 1920-2012 was one of the first female television producers in France working on projects which included "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." Also notable is the fact that she had been a courier for the Resistance in Paris during the Second World War. In 2003 Russell spent some time living in Santa Fe New Mexico. According to Anne Constable The Santa Fe New Mexican while living in Santa Fe she Russell wrote to Queen Elizabeth II suggesting that fake fur be substituted for the bear skin used in the hats worn by her guards. Her memoir published in 1975 was titled "Nicole Nobody. The Ceramic Book Company unknown
194443339Nyu-York: Farlag 1944. 1st American Edition. Paper Wrappers 8vo 61 pages. Includes illustrations. 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "A Year in Treblinka." Translation of Rok w Treblince. <br> <br> Jankiel Yankel Yaakov or Jacob Wiernik 1889-1972 was a "Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp resistance. He had been forced to work as a Sonderkommando slave worker there where an estimated 700000-900000 people mostly Jews were murdered. After his escape during the uprising of 2 August 1943 Wiernik reached Warsaw and joined the resistance. He also wrote a clandestine account of the camp's operation A Year in Treblinka which was copied and translated for printing in London and the US in English and Yiddish.<br> Following World War II Wiernik testified at Ludwig Fischer's trial in 1947. He left Poland emigrating first to Sweden and then to the new state of Israel. In 1961 he testified at Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. He returned to Poland in 1964 to attend the opening of the Treblinka Memorial. Wiernik died in Israel in 1972 at the age of 83.<br> On his arrival at Treblinka aboard the Holocaust train from Warsaw Wiernik was selected to work as a Sonderkommando; otherwise he would have been immediately gassed and killed that day. Wiernik's first job with the Sonderkommando required him to drag corpses from the gas chambers to mass graves. He was traumatized by his experiences and later wrote in his book: 'It often happened that an arm or a leg fell off when we tied straps around them in order to drag the bodies away.'<br> He remembered the horrors of the enormous pyres where '10000 to 12000 corpses were cremated at one time.'<br> He was also encouraged by occasional scenes of brave resistance. In chapter 8 he describes seeing a naked woman escape the clutches of the guards and leap over a three-metre high barbed wire fence unscathed. When accosted by a Ukrainian guard Trawniki on the other side she wrestled his machine gun out of his grasp killed the guard and shot another guard before being killed herself.<br> When the SS recognized that Wiernik was a professional carpenter they put him to work constructing various camp structures including additional gas chambers. Given his skills Wiernik was not subjected to the same treatment as others and no longer had to handle dead bodies. He attributed his survival to being able to build structures needed in the camp. Given the shortage of skilled construction workers accustomed to the killing process Wiernik moved between the two divisions of the camp frequently. As a result he became an important contact between the camp zones when the revolt was being planned.<br> Wiernik escaped Treblinka during the revolt of the prisoners on 'a sizzling hot day' of August 2 1943. A shot fired into the air signaled that the revolt was on. Wiernik wrote that he 'grabbed some guns' and after spotting an opportunity to make a break for the woods an axe. A camp guard in pursuit shot Wiernik with a pistol but the bullet did not penetrate his skin. Wiernik said he turned around and killed his pursuer with the axe. Wiernik continued to Warsaw hiding in a freight train.<br> Wiernik assumed the name of Jan Smarzynski. He made contact with members of the Jewish underground working in the 'Aryan' part of Warsaw. They realized he was a valuable eyewitness of the extermination process in Treblinka. He was persuaded in late 1943 to write A Year in Treblinka in spite of his initial reluctance Wiernik had little education and was not a skilled writer.<br> He took part in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising fighting in the Armia Ludowa. After the end of World War II Wiernik initially remained in Poland in 1947 he testified in the trial of Ludwig Fischer. He emigrated to Sweden and afterwards to the newly founded state of Israel.<br> There in the 1950s Wiernik built a model of the Treblinka camp. It is displayed in the Ghetto Fighters' House museum in Israel. In 1961 Wiernik testified in the Eichmann trial in Israel.<br> Jankiel Wiernik published Rok w Treblince A Year in Treblinka in 1944 as a clandestine booklet. It was printed through the efforts of the Jewish National Committee Zydowski Komitet Narodowy ZKN Bund underground organizations of the remnants of Polish Jews and the Polish Council to Aid Jews Zegota by means of an underground printer organized by Ferdynand Arczynski. The circulation was estimated by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski as 2000 copies. It was sent through Polish underground channels to London and translated into English and Yiddish. It was also printed in the US by American representatives of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland ie. this copy. The book recounts his experiences in the Treblinka extermination camp between 1942 and 1943" Wikipedia.<br> SUBJECTS: Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 -- Poland. Jews -- Poland -- Biography. OCLC: 12246244. Some toning touch or corner wear to covers otherwise Very Good Condition. Nice copy of this very important contemporary account of Treblinka. B HOLO2-50-20A-XXLE-IMMBBE@-'gg. Nyu-York: Farlag unknown
1997x-0419200002Spon Pr 1997. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 274 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. Spon Pr hardcover
194426125New York: Brentano's 1944. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black depicting a signed illustration by Girard of a fallen soldier; 292pp.; illus. by the author throughout including many full-paged. Spine a bit darkened top textblock edge stained with very shallow bleeding onto leaves. A Very Good and tight copy. Text entirely in French. Extensively illustrated contemporary account of the German occupation in France and the French Resistance. Girard a French painter and poster artist was the founding member of the Resistance organization known as the CARTE network which he ran from Antibes a free zone in France. In 1942 CARTE drew the attention of the British Special Operations Executive which provided the organization with arms radio operators and funds. After traveling to Britain under SOE orders in 1943 Girard was forbidden from returning to France during which time his wife was arrested and incarcerated in the Ravensbruck concentration camp until the end of the war. As a result Girard broke with the SOE and left in self-imposed exile for the United States where he voiced his opposition to the British and the Gaullists. <br /> <br /> TOGETHER WITH:<br /> <br /> Original pencil and ink maquette drawing of a fallen soldier 20x13.5cm. nearly identical to the cover illustration. Additional pencil sketch on verso with variation of the fallen soldier and cover text. Slight rust-staining from previously removed paper clip else Very Good.<br /> <br /> TOGETHER WITH:<br /> <br /> Original pencil and ink illustration 28x21.5cm. signed. Depicts a scrum of bedraggled men and women overseen by four large and sinister German guards either at a train station or a concentration camp though it is unclear. This illustration does not appear in the published work though variations of the guards do make appearances throughout. Tears at hole punches not affecting text some minor staining along top edge else Very Good. Brentano's unknown
