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1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo 32 pages. In Hungarian. Title translates as, Those who Died and Fought for the Honor of our People. Heavily illustrated catalog of an exhibit in Budapest, 1946, to illustrate the persecution of the Hungarian Jews during World War II. Printed entirely on glossy paper, this catalog includes 55 photos, facsimiles, and other images from the exhibition, primarily anti-Nazi Hungarian Jewish artwork and posters, but also anti-Semitic posters, death cam photos, and scenes of new life in Palestine. The picture material was collected by the Jewish Agency for Palestine Documentation Department in January 1946 (translated from page 2) . The Foreword notes (translated) that The first anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto has arrived. It is time to bring to the world the terrible documents of the tragedy of Judaism and put the still unbelievers who turn their heads into thinking; those who do not believe because they do not want to believe. But not only the persuasion of the doubters is the goal of this attempt, but also of recalling over and over again for those who forget quickly. This is the purpose of this sad picture book, with all the cries, complaints and death blows coming from all sides. These pictures are just dull shadows of reality. Subjects: Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Hungary--Exhibitions. OCLC: 1022126577. OCLC lists just one copy anywhere (NLI) . Light wear to wrappers, old dampstains to margins, but no images or text affected. Very Rare and important. (HOLO2-139-13U)
Original Cloth. 8vo. 384; 394; 414; 328; 356; 336; 324; 84 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Periodical. Published partially under Nazism. Complete run for the first 7 years; 1930 through 1937; only lacks final two issues from 1938 [Heft 4-6 (Januar 1938) ; Heft 7-9 (April 1938) ]. Organ of the Rabbiner-Hirsch-Gesellschaft. Began 1930, ceased in 1938. Years 1930-1937 bound in cloth (7 volumes) ; Issue 1- 3 for year 8, 1938 in original wraps. Cloth and paper quality of years 1-4 superb; later volumes, from year 5 on, printed on lower quality paper, and year 7 is handbound in recycled cloth, as issued. Important organ of German orthodoxy; contains many articles dealing with the life, thought, and correspondence of Samson Raphael Hirsch. Contains many important essays from Isaac Breuer (including his 'Der neue Kusari') , Elie Munk, Moses Findling, Harry Abt, Jakob Katz, Jacob Levy, Joseph Breuer, Moses Auerbach, and many others. These essays detail German-Orthodox thought and the response to contemporary events of the period (marxism, zionism, youth movements, Agudas Jisroel, the Prussian state, etc. ) . Subjects: Orthodox Judaism - Periodicals. Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 1808-1888 - Societies, etc. OCLC lists 21 copies. Soiling to cloth, later issues aged (printed on low quality paper) ; last issue wraps soiled, fragile, loose. Otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (GER-44-28)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In French. On cover: Temoignages de deportes politiques en Allemagne. 'Testimonies of political deportees in Germany'. 'Extermination Camps: Documents, Testimony, Photographs of the Camps of the deported in Germany. ' Contains 8 pages of photographs, depicting deportations, ovens, those murdered. Testimonies describe the deportations of Jews and resistance members to Drancy and on to Auschwitz. Subjects: Concentration camps - Germany. World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities. Atrocities. Concentration camps. World War (1939-1945) . Wraps torn at edges and soiled; bumped edges, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-124-9)
No Date (1941). 1st edition, original wrappers, 8vo. 12 pages. Almost certainly published in 1941, as the Rabbinical Association was founded in 1901 and this booklet is From the presidential message delivered at the 40th Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America- Detroit, Michigan. Arzt says, The moral re-awakening of America will be tremendously enhanced by tangible acts of sympathy and succor for the innocent victims of the holocaust across the seas. The Jews of America must, with increasing generosity and self-sacrifice, contribute of their means for the maintenance of the overseas program of relief. Our suffering brethren in war torn Europe will continue to hope against hope, if our thoughts, our prayers and our united efforts will be with them and for them. The religious forces in America should champion legislation for the suspension of all restrictive legislation to make possible the immediate admission of children from Europe for the duration of the war. Millions of Americans will eagerly offer the hospitality of their homes for these unfortunates. The arrival of a huge expeditionary army of little ones to these shores will immediately fortify our spirit and will generate in us a spirit of selflessness and sacrifice which will enable us to face the future with courage and confidence. (page 8) Not listed on OCLC or anywhere else online. Creased down the middle, previous owners name on written on cover, cover rubbed, else Good Condition. Extremely rare, perhaps a unique surviving copy (HOLO2-141-28)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 4-8 pages each. Conservative Jewish men's group newsletter from the Holocaust period from the the second synagogue founded in New York (1825) and the third-oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in the United States. "The object of the 'Tattler' will be to provide the members with a regular source of information and entertainment....The Pogroms in Russia during the Czarist regime or the activities of the Zionist movement in recent years had no such effect on the consciousness of the average American Jew except to stir a sense of pity and sympathy for the afflicted ones. But the cruel, heartless persecutions of the Jews in Germany by Hitler and his crew, caused a stirring in the blood of Native Americans of Jewish birth that made them turn about and recall the religion of their fathers and the God of Israel. We of The Men's Club of the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun welcome with open arms all those who are returning to the fold." Most issues include commentary on the increasing oppression of the Jews in Germany; other issues discussed include some current Jewish news, some retelling of Jewish history, congregation news, editorials, fun facts, jokes with lessons. OCLC: 944959016, OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (JTS & USHMM), though these holdings appear to be incomplete. First issue shows edgewear, other issues show only creases from folding, touch of wear, good quality paper with just the slightest toning. About Very Good Condition Overall. Rare (HOLO2-159-22A)
Original Cloth. 8vo. 121 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Scenes of the Destruction. Important collection of photographic images of Holocaust, published the year after the wars end in Palestine, not yet Israel. Introduction by Avraham Levinson. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Pictorial works. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Europe. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . World War (1939-1945) . Pictorial works. OCLC lists 18 copies. Light edge wear to cloth, endpages lightly foxed, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-124-4)
First edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 12mo, 43, 10 pages. Text in English and Hebrew. 13 drawings made by a Jewish woman of her fellow inmates while in the concentration camp at Leibitsch which consisted of 1200 Jewish women who had been deported from the Kaunas Ghetto in East Prussia. Lurie was liberated by the Red Army on 21 January 1945. In March 1945 she reached a camp in Italy, where she met Jewish soldiers from Palestine who were serving in the British army. One of them, the artist Menahem Shemi, organized an exhibition of drawings from the camps, which resulted in the publication of a booklet Jewesses in Slavery. This contained drawings by Lurie from Stutthof and Leibitz and was published by the Jewish Soldiers' Club of Rome in 1945. Lurie also created stage sets for the military song and dance group in the camp, which was founded by Eliahu Goldberg and Mordechai Zeira. Lurie reached Israel (Palestine) in July 1945 and was received with great excitement. Her stories were published in the press and her drawings were exhibited in exhibitions. In 1946 she was again awarded the Dizengoff Prize for a sketch Girl with Yellow Badge, which she had made in the Kovno ghetto (World ORT and Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, 2001) . SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. Women in art. OCLC Worldcat lists 18 copies worldwide. Ex-library copy with small pocket and stamps in Hebrew, wrappers slightly toned with a couple of tiny stains, otherwise Very Good Condition. (holo2-125-38A)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, tall 12mo, 69 pages. 22 cm. In German. The first separate publication of a demand for Nazi reparations to the Jews. In July 1943, long before the war ended, Siegfried Moses coined the term reparations in relation to claims of Jewish citizens against the German state. He published an article on the restitution demands of Jews in the bulletin of the "Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa", Tel Aviv; they publish here those proposals as a separate work. For the first time, Moses proposed that a State can commit an injustice, for which it must then compensate the civilian population which suffered under that injustice. This legal opinion was later the basis for reparations by the Federal Republic of Germany. Siegfried Moses (1887-1974) was a German-Israeli lawyer and the first state comptroller Israel. After the Nazi seizure of power, he helped German Jews transfer assets to Palestine. From 1933 on he was also chairman of the Zionist Federation of Germany (ZVfD) and Vice President of the Reich Association of German Jews. In 1937 Moses himself fled to Palestine; then in 1941 he wrote (together with fellow German emigre Walter Schwarz) the text of the 1941 Palestinian Income Tax Act. In 1947 Moses was a member of the delegation of the Jewish Agency at the United Nations and in 1949, he became the first state comptroller Israel (Chief of Court) . In 1956-1957, he was also President of the "Council of Jews from Germany", the official association of Israelis of German origin. In 1955 he co-founded the Leo Baeck Institute, serving as its director, and was on the advisory board of the United Restitution Organization in Israel (Wikipedia, 2015) . SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations. World War, 1939-1945 -- Claims. Jews -- Europe. Jewish property -- Germany -- History -- Post war problems -- Reparations for historical injustices. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide, but only 5 copies in the US (NYPL, Yale, US Holocaust Museum, UChicago, Princeton) . Spine worn, corners bumped through, Good Condition. Very important. (holo2-126-34).
1st English Language Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 83, [1] pages ; 19 cm. Contemporary report on one of the the first two war crimes trials against Nazi defendants, held almost 2 years before the Nuremberg Trials. A historic account of the Trial in which three officials of the Kharkov Gestapo (Hans Rietz, Wilhelm Langfeld, and Reinhard Retzlaff) were tried before a Soviet military Court at Kharkov, Ukraine, from December 15, 1943, to December 18, 1943. All were found guilty and sentenced to death. (Jewish Virtual Library, 2017) Includes a transcript from the trial. Published in Moscow by the Soviet Governments Foreign Languages Publishing House, which was publishing reports of ongoing regional atrocities in various languages. SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Russiav(Federation) -- Kharkiv. War crimes. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and usual markings. Slight paper toning as expected. Institutional bookplate, no other markings, Very Good condition. Important. (holo2-135-8A)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. [16] pages ; 19 cm. In English. In this historic speech, Temple concludes, My chief protest is against procrastination of any kind The Jews are being slaughtered at the rate of tens of thousands a day on many days. We know that what we can do is small compared with the magnitude of the problem, but we cannot rest so long as there is any sense among us that we are not doing all that might be done. We have discussed the matter on the footing we are not responsible for this great evil but it is always true that the obligations of decent men are decided for them by contingencies which they did not themselves create We stand at the bar of history, of humanity, and of God. Holocaust-era speeches by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Rochester made to the House of Lords outlining ongoing atrocities and calling for the British government to approach the problem of resettling Jewish refugees with more urgency. William Temple (18811944) was a bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Manchester (192129) , Archbishop of York (192942) and Archbishop of Canterbury (194244) . A renowned teacher and preacher, Temple is perhaps best known for his 1942 book Christianity and Social Order, which set out an Anglican social theology and a vision for what would constitute a just post-war society . Against the background of persecution of Jewish people during World War II, Temple jointly founded with Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice in Britain. In March 1943, Temple addressed the House of Lords, urging action to be taken on the atrocities being carried out by Nazi Germany. (Wikipedia, 2016) SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue. In the US Holocaust Museum rare book collection. Some edgewear. In about very good condition. (HOLO2-130-9)
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 70 pages ; 17 cm. Text in Polish. The first separate published account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, issued the year following the revolt. Title translates into English as, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Issued under Soviet auspices it was written by a participant, the Polish historian, journalist and anti-Fascist activist, Bernard Mark (1908-1966) . Mark narrates the events immediately preceding and during the 1943 armed uprising of Warsaw's Jews, and presents Jewish, Polish, and German documents pertaining to the Warsaw and other ghetto and camp rebellions. (Google Books, 2017) Published by Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR. SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide, but none in New York. Paper toning. Very good+ condition, a beautiful copy. (holo2-135-2A)
1st printing of the 1938 edition. October, 1938. Original illustrated wrappers, 12mo (small) , 191 pages, including many, many period ads. Published just one month prior to Kristallnacht, this is a Name and Address Directory of the worlds leading Fur business district, the Brühl, and its counterpart in Berlin, both very heavily Jewish. Divided into 2 sections, one for the Brühl in Leipzig, and the other for Furriers in Berlin. In the 19th and early 20th Century, the Brühl had become synonymous with the Leipzig fur and Tobacco trade. It was the name of the large street where the trade was concentrated (also including Nikolai- and Reichs-strasse) . The Brühl reached its highest density with 794 shops in 1928. Of these, about 58 percent were Jewish run and owned. In the period 1926-1930, the Brühl controlled about one third of the world market in furs. With the great depression, followed by the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, the fur trade went into decline. For political reasons the fascist leadership limited the import quotas for goods from the USSR, such as raw fur. And, of course, increasingly, Jewish merchants in the Brühl were discriminated against and expelled. Many fled to England or the United States, where they established new fur businesses. Following Kristallnacht, which came only 1 month after the publication of this guide in October 1938, it became impossible for Jewish furriers to function. Some of the most famous Jewish fur traders included: Julius (Judel) Ariowitsch (1855-1908) ; Chaim Eitingon (1857-1932) , known as "Fur King from Brühl", founder of the Ez Chaim Synagogue and the Jewish hospital; the Frankel family; the Harmerlin Family; John B. (John [Joel] Berend) Oppenheimer & Company; F. Weiss (1893-1982) ; and Theodor Wolf (1833) . OCLC lists only one holding worldwide (German National Library) . Light wear, occational pencil scribbles, overall Very Good Condition. Quite rare and important. (holo2-125-28)
Original Publisher's Boards. 8vo. 48 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Early photographic expose of Nazism in Germany, in French, with parallel German and English translations. Mostly illustrated (pgs 6-47) , containing photographs and the printed speeches of Nazi leaders. Photographs of childhood, training of youth, propaganda, S. A. , S. S. , police in the Third Reich, which demonstrate that the everyday tutelage of the people, no matter of what age, constitute the terror of the third Reich (p. 5) . The world is threatened by the brown hate! ! (p. 5) . Dt. Exilarchiv 4106; Sternfeld/Tiedemann 350. Subjects: National socialism. Political science. 1933 - 1945 Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945. OCLC lists 29 copies. Light wear to spine, otherwise Very good condition. (HOLO2-125-23) xx
1st edition. Later Cloth with covers bound in, Oblong 4to, Aproximately 100 leaves, mostly photographic plates. Includes 175 photographic illustrations. Introductory text and captions (many of Biblical origin) in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. This album seeks to present a picture of the wanderings of the 'remnants' of European Jewry - wanderings that began at the conclusion of the last war and still continue (From the introduction) . A collection of 175 black and white photographs documenting the Bericha - - the 'illegal' underground flight of surviving European Jews into Palestine immediately following the Holocaust. This was the great exodus of European Jews following the holocaust, who illegally crossed the borders of Soviet-occupied lands and made their way as illegal immigrants to the shores of Palestine. Special sections of this album are dedicated to children and orphans who took part in this immigration effort, and another section documents the famous journey of the ship Exodus. Compiled by Ephraim Dekel, a high-ranking Haganah officer and architect of the Bericha escape-route. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish refugees. Emigration and immigration. Jewish refugees. Berih? Ah (Organization) Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Pictorial works. Staining to first 10 leaves, heavy wear to original cover, which is bound in, but photographic and text pages are very good--clear, solid, and powerful. A Good Copy. (holo2-125-10)
Original Cloth. 8vo. 482, [12] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hungarian. 'You are the Witness! From Ukraine to Auschwitz. ' With 12 pages of plates (printed in blue ink) . Includes name register of Hungarian Jewish victims of the holocaust on pages 209-482. Finely bound in buckram with gilt title. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Registers of dead Hungary. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Registers of dead - Ukraine. Holocaust survivors - Hungary Registers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews - Persecutions - Hungary. Jews - Persecutions. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . OCLC lists 18 copies. Light wear to cloth; pages lightly aged, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-20)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 15 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Declaration by Jan Stanczyk on the heroic struggle of the underground movement in Poland (Jewish and Polish) , the vicious eradication of all Polands citizens by the Nazi occupation, and the need to redress previous wrongs committed by the Polish government against its Jewish citizens. Contains six illustrations. A pledge of Jewish equality in a 'post-war democratic Poland freed of the Nazi yoke, ' was given here today by Jan Stanczyk, Polish Minister of Labor and Social Welfare at a press conference preceding his address to the executive committee of the Jewish Labor Committee. 'The future relations between Gentiles and Jews in liberated Poland, ' said Mr. Stanczyk, 'will be built on entirely new foundations. Poland will guarantee all her citizens including the Jews full legal equality. This Poland will be a true democracy and every one of her citizens will enjoy equal rights irrespective of race, creed or origin. ' Emphasizing that the Jewish underground movement in Poland today is part of the great Polish underground army waging the struggle for the common cause of liberation, Mr. Stanczyk declared that the present war 'has wiped out the institutions and destroyed the power of groups which had striven to foment hatred among the people of Poland' and that their common fate has created a strong bond between Gentile and Jew. - JTA, 'Post-war Poland Will Guarantee Equality to Jews, Stanczyk Pledges', December 11, 1941. Subjects: Rzeczpospolita Polska (Government-in-exile) ; Jewish Labor Committee (U. S. ) . Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. - Poland. Civil rights - Poland. World War, 1939-1945 - Poland. Civil rights. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. World War (1939-1945) . OCLC lists 8 copies. Light wear to wraps, overall very clean and fresh. Very good condition. Very important. (HOLO2-123-27)
Original blue gilt-tooled calf leather. 12mo. 120, 194, 194 pages. 18 cm. Survivors Bible, printed by Vaad Hatzala. Pentateuch, Haftarot and Megilot with commentary of Rashi and Targum. 'Matanah me-et Va'ad ha-hatsalah le-she'erit ha-peletah. ' Title page has coloured illustration. With dedication page to President Harry Truman with superimposed American Flag. "The remnants of Israel that survived the great destruction wrought upon our people by Hitler's hoards, these shattered remenats the 'Sherith Hepleita' were weakened physically and spiritually...we wish to dedicate this Holy Bible, the very ancient well of civilization, to his Honor, the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman. His courageous and kind words, his noble acts and deeds in behalf of our people have served as a ray of hote in these trying, troubleed and most cdritical period of our people..." With "Mr. M. Shipper inscribed in gilt on upper cover.Issued by the Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee for the benefit of the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust (Sheerit Hapleita). This custom-bound copy likely prepared for an American donor.See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) p. 34 (illustrated). Subjects: Haftarot - Commentaries. Bible. Pentateuch - Commentaries. Bible. Five Scrolls - Commentaries. Pentateuch. Hebrew. 1947.; Holy Bible: Vaad Hatzala, Germany. OCLC lists 15 copies. A copy sold at auction in 2021 for over $1200. Outstanding copy in original deluxe blue leather binding, Very Good condition. (HOLO2-117-58B)
Original wraps. 8vo. 246, [2] pages. 23 cm. Serial publication. In Hungarian, with Yiddish. OMZSA Yearbook. The Országos Magyar Zsidó Segíto Akció (National Hungarian Jewish Aid Association; OMZSA) was a general assistance organization for the large Budapest community. The OMZSA was involved with cultural, legal, and economic battles on behalf of the (religious) Jewish Budapest community. For example, a series of drawings by the artist Imre Amos (1907-1945) entitled Zsidó ünnepek (Jewish Holidays) , representing the Jewish holidays in the shadow of annihilation, became emblematic for Hungarian Jewry. (The series appeared in 150 copies published in 1940 by the Országos Magyar Zsidó Segito Akció [National Hungarian Jewish Aid Action]. ) (YIVO encyclopedia) . According to OCLC, four issues of the yearbook are known to exist (the earliest issue is titled OMZSA Naptár OMZSA Calendar) . This issue contains a calendar of the days and holidays for the year (In Hungarian and Yiddish) , and extensive literary (poems, letters, short stories) and journalistic pieces by dozens of writers and editors from the Budapest community. For many of these authors, this would be their last published work. [T]he Germans occupied the country on 19 March 1944, Gestapo chief Adolf Eichmann set up his SS command in Budapest, and the Budapest Jewish Council was established. What had been an extended process of stigmatization, ghettoization, deportation, and murder elsewhere was greatly concentrated and executed with great efficiency and speed in Hungary. The deportation and gassing of almost 440, 000 provincial Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau began in mid-May and was swiftly accomplished by July as a result of full cooperation of the Hungarian authorities. Only intense diplomatic pressure threatening harsh postwar retribution caused Regent Horthy to call a halt to the deportations on 6 July, giving Budapest Jewry a temporary reprieve. In Budapest, a series of measures increasingly placed limitations on Jews who remained in the capital. Restrictions were placed on using the public transport; later telephones, bicycles, and cars were confiscated, and an evening curfew was imposed. From 3 April, all persons defined as Jews were obligated to wear a yellow star on their outer clothing The reverses suffered by the Germans emboldened Horthy to announce in mid-October his intention to withdraw Hungary from the war. With German backing, Ferenc Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party seized power on 15 October. Budapests Jews were now threatened by a far more vicious regime whose radical antisemitic ideology was wholly in tune with Hitlers apocalyptic vision. Forced death marches began on 20 October and along with German deportations, affected some 75, 000 Budapest Jews. The city rapidly descended into chaos as roving Arrow Cross bands combed the streets rounding up Jews. The first murders in the streets began on 12 November; the first executions took place by the riverbank on 23 November. (YIVO Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews - Hungary - Periodicals. Jewish almanacs. OCLC lists 7 copies. Wraps lightly worn, with light pencil marks on front cover and first endpage. Pages lightly aged, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-103-36)
328 pages. "A significant document by which the author acquitted himself of the obligation bequeathed on the survivors of the Holocaust by its victims to tell the world what happened to the Jews during World War Two, when to be a Jew was a crime. The Memoirs based on the author's own experiences and reports told to him by his relatives and friends, survivors of the Holocaust, describe the fate of hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews, banished by the Russians to Siberia and in particular the lot of those who came under the Nazi regime... A rich source of first hand information about the life in the ghetto, the Judenrat, the Jewish Ghetto Police and the methods used by the Nazis in the destruction of the Jews." - dust jacket. Author lost his parents, wife and two sons in the Holocaust. Map endpapers. Black and white illustrations. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket lightly sunned at spine, bears several closed tears and is missing some small chips - now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy.. Book
(1945) . Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers, Small 8vo, 216 pages. Eredeti borítóval. Includes 9 powerful original linocut illustrations, and cover design, by Shagra Weil. Also includes a bit of music.Title translates as "The Yellow Book. Data on the War Losses of Hungarian Jewry. 1941-1945." One of the earliest book about the Hungarian Holocaust. Published by Hechaluc (Hehalutz), the Zionist resistant movement, whose legendary headquarters was located at the Üvegház (Glasshouse) in Budapest, a former glass-store. During the Holocaust about 3000 people found shelter there and it was the center for producing fake identification documents to save Hungarian Jews from persecution. Shraga Weil (Ferenc Ferdinánd; 1918-2009) was a Hungarian born Israeli painter. He studied at the Academy of Art in Prague and École des Beaux Arts in Paris. During WWII he was active in the Zionist underground movement in Budapest, working in the workshop for forging documents. After the war he sailed for Palestine on an illegal immigrant ship and became a member of Kibbutz Ha'ogen where he lived until his death. In 1959 Weil was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for painting. He created the doors of the main entrance to the Knesset building and the President's residence in Jerusalem. Weil painted the wooden panels in the Israeli Hall at the Kennedy Center. Sándor Groszmann (Alexander Grossmann, Ben Erec; 1909-2003) was a journalist and publisher, one of the main activists of the Hungarian Zionist movement and co-founder of "Hashomer Hatzair" in Hungary. He was one of the leaders at the "Glasshouse". "When the argument arose about whether to absorb more Jews into the 'Glass House' as they might endanger the lives of those already living there, he said: 'For the sake of one hundred thousand Jews it is worth to endanger our own lives'". (Gur, D.; 2007). After the liberation he was the secretary of JDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) in Budapest and member of the board of the Hungarian Zionist Association and of the "Eretz-Israel" office. In 1949 he left Hungary and after living in Austria and Israel he settled down in Switzerland where he started to publish books and the periodical "Jöv?" (Future). [Bibl.: Gur, D.: Brothers for Resistance and Rescue. The Underground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary during Word War II. Jerusalem-New York, 2007; Cohen, A.: The Halutz Resistance in Hungary, 1942-1944. New York, 1986.]. Paper aged, Very Good Condition. (holo2-125-27) xx
Original paper wrappers with colorful illustrated dust jacket, 8vo, 83 pages, plus 12 plates of facsimiles and photos of survivors taken by Burger just after liberation, (including one photo of former Sonderkommandos) . Original 1945 edition Adolf Burgers memoirs about his journeys through the Nazi concentration camps and his work in the counterfeiting workshop in Oranienburg, narrated by Sylva and Oskar Krejci. His memoirs are the basis for the film, The Counterfieters, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Adolf Burger took up a job in a printing house in Bratislava in 1938 he became one of those who received government-sponsored waivers from deportations as someone with skills indispensable for the country's economy. At the request of resistance members, Burger began to print false baptismal certificates for Jews scheduled for deportation, which stated that they had been Roman Catholic from birth, or baptized so before World War II. Slovaks with such documents were not deported. Burger's activity was discovered. He was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp After eighteen months at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Burger's training came through for him once more. He was selected for Operation Bernhard, transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in April 1944, and eventually to the Ebensee site of the Mauthausen camp network where he was liberated by the US Army on 6 May 1945 (Wikipedia, 2016) . The covers use a montage design of US currency, British documents, and Burgers concentration camp insignia. SUBJECT(S) : WWII, Resistance, Concentration Camps. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Some tears to jacket at folds, Minimal stains and slight toning. Very good condition. Dramatic and attractive. (HOLO2-134-63A)
1st edition. Original wrappers. 4to, 29 cm. each issue approx. 16 pages each issue. Each volume includes 12 monthly issues. Illustrations throughout. In Czech with some English. This run includes vol. I, (1-12, beginning in October 1, 1939), vol. II (1-12), vol. III (1-12, beginning in 1941), vol IV (1-12, beginning in October 1942), vol. V (1-12), vol. VI (1-12), vol VII (1-12), vol. VIII (1-12, beginning October 1946), vol. IX (1-11, beginning in October 1947), vol X (1-12, beginning in October 1948), vol. XI (1-12, beginning in October, 1949), vol. XII (1-12, beginning in October 1950), vol. XIII( 1-12, beginning in October 1951), vol. XIV(1-12, beginning in October 1952), vol XV (1-5, 7-12, beginning in October 1953), vol. XVI (1-12, beginning in October 1954), vol. XVII (1-12, beginning in October 1955), vol. XVIII (1-12, beginning in October 1956) ,vol. XIX (1, 3-12, beginning in October, 1957), vol. XX (1-12, beginning in October 1958), vol. XXI (1-12, beginning in October 1959), vol. XXII (1-12, beginning in October 1960), vol. XXIII (1-12, beginning in October 1961), vol. XXIV (1-12, beginning in October 1962), vol. XXV (1-12, beginning in October 1963), vol. XXVI (1-12, beginning in October 1964), vol. XXVII (1-12, beginning in October 1965), vol. XXVIII (1-12, beginning in October 1966), vol. XXIX (1-12, beginning in October 1967), vol. XXXIV (7-11, beginning in May 1973), vol. XXXV (1-12, beginning in November 1973), vol. XXXVI (1-12, beginning in November 1974), vol. XXXVII (1-8, 10-12, beginning in November 1975), and vol. XXXVIII (4-8, beginning in February 1977). Total of 390 issues Publication began October 1, 1939. The Czech-American National Alliance began as the Bohemian (later Czech) National Alliance in America (Ceske narodni sdruzeni) which led a victorious fight against Austro-Hungary in the US. Czech Chicago was in the center of this liberation movement, together with the help of various Alliances branches, e.g., New York, Detroit and Omaha. Under the leadership of Dr. Fisher, who became the chairman, and Josef Tvrzicky, the executive secretary, the number of these branches throughout the US eventually grew to 350. SUBJECT(S): History. Periodicals. Czechoslovakia. OCLC: 5048975, OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Most have previous owners name and address on front, few have notes on cover and pages, few have some tearing and chipping, some wear and sunning on most, Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-159-12-LGG-f)
1st edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. 12mo. 63 pages, 18 cm. Published as the Allies were closing in on Nazi Germany as part of imagining what kind of compensation and restitution should be extracted from Germany for the Jews. SUBJECTS: Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Germany. Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (USHMM, UMi, Senckenberg, Hebrew U. , Columbia) , only 3 in the US. Wrappers are mildly edgeworn. Pages browning. Very good. (HOLO2-142-39)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 14 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 15th Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Elie Wiesel a year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking to the US Military Academy, Weisel says, I shall always remember the day I was liberated by the American Army: April 11, 1945 I remember a black sergeant, huge, marvelous. I saw him cry, and I heard him curse; he saw the corpses, he saw the victims, he understood what no one would ever understand, that something had happened in history that had changed history, and in his helplessness, he simply cursed, and to me his curses became pure prayers OCLC lists just 3 copies worldwide (West Point, US Army War College, Texas A&M) . Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Very good+ Condition. Scarce and important. (HOLO2-130-55A)
1st edition. Original green printed wrappers, 8vo, 32 pages. Early Zionist plea from the pivotal year of 1904, which saw both Herzls death as well as the first American publication of Herzls The Jewish State. Indeed, by 1904, cultural Zionism was accepted by most Zionists and a schism was beginning to develop between the Zionist movement and Orthodox Judaism. In 1904, Herzl died unexpectedly at the age of 44 and the leadership was taken over by David Wolffsohn, who led the movement until 1911. During this period, the movement was based in Berlin (Germany's Jews were the most assimilated) and made little progress, failing to win support among the Young Turks after the collapse of the Ottoman Regime .Under Herzl's leadership, Zionism relied on Orthodox Jews for religious support, with the main party being the orthodox Mizrachi. However, as the cultural and socialist Zionists increasingly broke with tradition and used language contrary to the outlook of most religious Jewish communities, many orthodox religious organizations began opposing Zionism. Their opposition was based on its secularism and on the grounds that only the Messiah could re-establish Jewish rule in Israel.Therefore, most Orthodox Jews maintained the traditional Jewish belief that while the Land of Israel was given to the ancient Israelites by God, and the right of the Jews to that land was permanent and inalienable, the Messiah must appear before the land could return to Jewish control (Wikipedia. Albert M. Friedenberg (18811942) was an American lawyer and historian. At the age of 19, he joined the American Jewish Historical Society and became one of its leading members; he was largely responsible for the issuance of 17 volumes of the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society (ajhsp, nos. 1834). Friedenberg wrote numerous papers and articles on the early history of Jews in America, immigration, historical aspects of Zionism, Jews in Masonry, and the Jewish periodical press, and also on local German Jewish history, literature, and biography. He acted as the New York correspondent of the Baltimore Jewish Comment (190210) and the Chicago Reform Advocate (190531), and as contributing editor of the New York Hebrew Standard (190723). Includes bibliographical references (Encyclopedia.com). SUBJECT(S): Zionism. Interestingly, OCLC lists not a single hard copy anywhereonly microfilm and digital access copies (for example, OCLC: 894106828). An absolutely pristine, unread copy, amazingly preserved, Very Good+ Condition. Extremely rare, important, and well-preserved (zion2-3-3)