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Publishers cloth. 8vo. VI, 228 pages. 21 cm. First edition. The autobiographical novel of Andrew Bihaly, a young man who came to America in 1950, a victim of the horrors of Wolrd War II. He was born in Hungary in 1934, and died in New York in 1968. Of Andrews journal David Halberstam has written: An American story almost too painful to bear. It is a book to break your heart, yet also to enrich it. (back jacket description) . Subjects: Bihaly, Andrew. New York (City) - Social life and customs. Institutional stamps on last page, otherwise fine. Great condition in very good jacket. (HOLO2-103-9)
Paper, 8vo, 23 cm. , 207 pages. In French. Edited by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. English translation of title: The final solution of the Jewish Question: An Essay on its principles in the third. Reich and France under the occupation. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Persecutions France; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) France; World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from France. Ex-library with minimal markings. Good condition, with slight bumping at corner. (Holo2-30-14)
Softbound. 8vo. XIV, 263 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Publishers description: An elderly Chassidic rebbe sits in a wheelchair surrounded by his devoted followers. Suddenly one of them whispers in his ear, Oberleutenant Birnbuam send regards. The rebbe looks up and motions for the circle to split for a tall, lanky man he saw more than thirty years earlier. To the mans Shalom Aleichem, the rebbe replies, Yasher Koach. Yasher Koach for what you did for us in Landsberg. The storekeeper in Meah Shearim asks, Arent you Oberleutenant Birnbaum? Before his startled customer can even reply, he is engulfed in a warm embrace, as the storekeeper shouts to his amazed wife and son, This man was our liberator! Some people seem born to lead more interesting lives than others. Meyer Birnbaum is one of them. Relive with him the crunching poverty of Brooklyn during the Depression. Experience his spiritual awakening in Young Israel, Americas first baal teshuvah movement. Meet R Elchonon Wassserman, R Yitzchak Hutner, and Mike Tress through the eyes of an American teenager. Encounter the anti-Semitism of the American Army: Christian missionaries in sheeps clothing, court-martial for wearing a yarmulke, fellow officers complaints about fighting the Jews War. Be there at the liberation of Buchenwald and Ohrduff. Hear the Klausenberger Rebbe rekindle the flame of emunah and bitachon in his overwhelming Kol Nidre drashah the first Yom Kippur after the liberation. Gun running for the Hagannah Teaching Israeli youngsters skills they will soon put to use in Israels War of Independence Photographing corpses in Israeli morgues to bring the autopsy scandal to the attention of the world Chauffeuring Mirrer Rosh Yeshivah Rabbi Beinush Finkel and countless others to the daily sunrise minyan at the Kosel Raising sixteen children of his own and providing a home to many others. These are but a few of the chapters in Meyer Birnbaums fascinating life. Subjects: Jews - New York (State) - New York - Biography. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, Jewish. Holocaust survivors - Germany. Orthodox Judaism - New York (State) - New York. Jews, American - Israel - Biography. Birnbaum, Meyer, 1918- condition. Previous owners signature on title page, outer edges lightly soiled, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-100-39)
1st Edition. Period Boards. 8vo. 336 pages ; 25 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, Selected Writings On The Jewish Question. Part 1. Includes only Volume 1 of 2. Nathan Birnbaum (1864 1937) . (also known as Mathias Acher and other pseudonyms) .. Was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist. His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: a Zionist phase (1883 1900) ; a Jewish cultural autonomy phase (1900 1914) which included the promotion of the Yiddish language; and religious phase (19141937) when he turned to Orthodox Judaism and became staunchly anti-Zionist (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Jews. Zionism. Spine is missing, and somewhat ironically the exposed binding shows a repurposed newspaper cartoon of Jewish men having an argument. Boards slightly worn. Includes full pages portrait of Birnbaum. A few markings throughout but overall about very good condition. (GER-59-30)
Softcover, 8vo, 164 pages, illustrated, 23 cm. SUBJECT (S) : Christian education -- Textbooks -- Catholic. Christianity and antisemitism. Textbook bias -- Europe. Catholics -- Europe -- Attitudes. Rooms-katholieken. Jodendom. Vooroordelen. Bibliography on pages 153-158. Lightwear. Very good condition. (Holo2-67-11)
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 112 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Twenty One and One: About Twenty-One Yiddish Actors Murdered by the Nazis in Vilna, 1941-1942." Preface by A. Morewski and Leiser Ran. Subjects: Jewish actors -- Biography. Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Yiddish drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Jewish actors. Jews -- Persecutions. Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Spine is starting. Light soiling to cover. Internally very clean. Overall good condition. (YID-23-6)
Original Publishers Cloth. Small 4to. Xxx, 458 p. Port. 25 cm. The volume contains 26 essays and a bibliography of Professor Baron's writings (pages [xv]-xxx). Essays cover an array of subjects - from the Babylonian Academies and Maimonides theology to the cloakmakers strike of 1910 to Jewish immigrants in London in the 1880's. Also covered are the Nazi regimes in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia and more. Includes bibliographical footnotes. Very good condition. (FEST1-19)
1st edition thus. Paper Wraps. 8vo. 40 pages. 23 cm. Holocaust-era imprint. A look at the Jewish refugee problem including: Barbarism, Incorporated, How Many Jews? Where Can They Go? Germanys Loss is Our Gain, and Refugee Immigrants: Can We Afford Them? Vol VI, Nr. 5 of "Indusital Democracy Periodical Studies in Economics and Politics." SUBJECT (S) : Jewish question. Jews -- Germany. Jews -- Persecutions. Political Refugees. United States of America; social conditions and relations; ethnic groups, race; Jews; general. Verenigde Staten; sociale toestanden en verhoudingen; rassen en nationaliteiten; Joden; algemeen. Spine rebacked, lacks rear cover, institutional stamp on table of contents, good condition thus. (HOLO2-49-29B) .
1st Separate Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 10 pages ; 25 cm. Printed in two columns. "Reprinted from The Protestant. Post-Holocaust article on Anti-Semitism by Dr. Joshua Bloch (1890-1957) , part of an ongoing controversy he had with The Prostestant over the issue of Christian Antisemitism, its appearance in Catholic textbooks, and how it was dealt with in the pages of the journal. Bloch was a notable scholar and librarian (and HUC-ordained Rabbi) who served as Chief of the Jewish Division at the New York Public Library. SUBJECT(S) : Christianity and Antisemitism. OCLC lists just 3 copies worldwide (HUC, USC, Det Kngelige Bibliotek) . None on East Coast or in NYC. Slight wear but pages are clean and without markings. Very good condition. (AMR-51-26) xx
Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 99 pages. In French. Pierre-Bloch was one of few parliamentarians to oppose the Munich Agreement. As a Jew, he was particularly concerned by the fate in store for the Jews of Adolf Hitler's Germany. This book covers the trial of David Frankfurter, a Jew who assassinated Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP chef Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland. This became an important pretext for German aggression. Pages discolored, worn at edges. Pages unopened. Covers are slightly stained, with writing in pencil on front. Tear at the top of spine. Good condition. (HOLO2-28-13)
First edition. Paper wrappers, square 4to, 255 pages. Portraits of Holocaust rescuers from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union/Ukraine. Includes color and black and white photographs with accompanying text. Includes bibliographical references. Prologue by Cynthia Ozick and afterword by Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis. Very good condition. (HOLO2-17-5)
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 178, [2] pages. 24 cm. In Hebrew. Issue two has separate title page in English and Yiddish: Pages for the study of the catastrophe and the revolt published by the Yitzhak Katznelson Ghetto Fighters House. Major essays include: Collecting Material for recent Jewish History; Some Rescue and Relief Activities; The Pogroms in Poland (1935-1937) ; The linguistic heritage of the Nazi years and its expression in Hebrew Literature; Poems by Katznelson, and Book Reviews. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Periodicals. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Periodicals. Boards worn, pages aged; clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-102-45)
First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 178, [2] pages. 24 cm. In Hebrew. Issue two has separate title page in English and Yiddish: Pages for the study of the catastrophe and the revolt published by the Yitzhak Katznelson Ghetto Fighters House. Major essays include: Collecting Material for recent Jewish History; Some Rescue and Relief Activities; The Pogroms in Poland (1935-1937) ; The linguistic heritage of the Nazi years and its expression in Hebrew Literature; Poems by Katznelson, and Book Reviews. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Periodicals. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Periodicals. Boards worn, pages aged; clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-102-45A)
Original wraps. 12mo. [4] pages. 19 cm. First edition. One folded sheet. Anti-Mosley fact sheet, citing his about-face from previous positions of the 1920s, non-British funding of British fascism, etc. In October 1936 Mosley and Diana Mitford, the daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, secretly married in the house of the Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was one of only six guests at the ceremony . In his book entitled Fascism Mosley outlines and answers 100 questions related to his policies, beliefs and goals, including The Jews, as a whole, have chosen to organize themselves as a nation within the Nation and to set their interests before those of Great Britain. They must, like everyone else, put Britain First or leave Britain (holocaustresearchproject.org, 2014) Subjects: Fascists - Great Britain. Antisemitism - Great Britain. Antisemitism. Fascists. Mosley, Oswald, 1896-1980. Mosley, Oswald, 1896-1980. Great Britain. OCLC lists three copies (Harvard, British Libr, Univ Joh Chr Senckenberg), only one copy in the US. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (HOLO2-123-7) xx
1st edition. Original Blue Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 64 pages. 22 cm. The author, a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, escaped to England in May 1940. According to the author, after the invasion, the christian churches resisted all attempts of the usurpers to impose their pagan practices like championing the cause of the Jews. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Netherlands. Tweede Wereldoorlog. Verzet. Kerkgenootschappen. Library mark on cover and endpaper, Light wear, Very Good Condition. (Holo2-126-12)
1st Russian Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 438 pages ; 22 cm. In Russian. Title translates into English as, Jews of Latvia. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Latvia -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Latvia. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Included photographs and maps. Very good+ condition. (holo2-130-45)
Paper Wraps. 8vo. 75 pages. 21 cm. Cover Title: De Illegale Pers Over Na-Oorlogsche Problemen. Contents/Inhoud: Interpretatie van de gebreken en stroomingen van deze tijd; Plannen voor toekomstige hervormingen, speciaal in Nederland (Sociale en Economische) ; De basis van ons staatsapparaat; Hervorming van ons staatsapparaat. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, University of Groningen) . Cover and title page are slightly discolored with some stains, but all text is clear. Internal pages are darkened at edges. Binding it tight. Good condition. (HOLO2-41-7)
8vo. Xii, 247 pages. SUBJECT (S) : Jews - Germany - history - 1800-1933; Jews - Germany - psychology; Germany - politics and government - 1918-1933; Germany - ethnic relations. CONTENTS: Introduction; Illusion of assimilation; The search for a home; The mark; Lord of the rings; In search of a hero; The well; The king never dies; The rumor and the reality; Conclusion. ISBN: 0444990143. Has dust jacket. Water stain to fore edge of jacket and book, good condition. (Holo2-12-19)
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 12mo. 112 pages, 16.5 cm. Written in German. Title translates to Collective Agreement Law. No. 7 in the series Schriftenreihe des Österreichischen Gewerkschaftsbundes (Series of publications of the Austrian Trade Union Federation) . New laws regarding collective bargaining and trade union activity had to be re-written following the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Nazi government in Austria and the murder, exile, or imprisonment of the leadership of the anti-Nazi trade union movement. The Austrian Trade Union Federation was founded in 1947 as a labor union of employees. It is constituted as an association and is subdivided into seven smaller affiliated trade unions (Wikipedia, 2016) . With analysis of the laws by Franz Borkowetz and a forward by Johann Böhm. Includes several tables. SUBJECT(S) : Austrian Trade Unions, Law. OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (Schwizerishes Sozialarchiv, Bibliothek der Fridrich-Ebert-Stiftung) . Minor tears along spine. Minimal markings. Some toning to pages. Very good condition. (Holo2-134-7)
(FT) Softcover. 8vo. 325 pages. Ill. 21 cm. In Hebrew with additional Table of Contents and title page in English (Switzerland - An island) . Contents Include: Geneva; When Did We Come to Know the Truth; The Swiss Governments Refugee Policy; Establishing a Network of Contacts; Rescue Operations; The Kastner Train; Poland; The End of War Realignment; Renewing the Framework of the World-Movement, 1945-1946; Asking for Forgiveness After 50 Years. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Switzerland -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish refugees -- Switzerland. Named Person: Bornstein, Heini. Geographic: Switzerland -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 9657026075. Inscription to previous owner on title page, but otherwise a clean copy. Very good condition. (HOLO2-39-23)
Original wrappers. 8vo. 260 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Documents of Crime and Martyrdom. A Montevideo-published Yiddish translation of Michal Borwiczs Dokumenty zbrodni I meczénstwa. Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow from 1945 to 1947. After emigrating to France in 1947, he directed the Centre d'etude de l`histoire des Juifs (Polonais) (Center for Research of the History of the Jews of Poland) in Paris until his death. (EHRI, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (OCLC: 10601885) . Pages are browning and brittle. Some chipping and edge wear. Otherwise good. (YID-40-61-L-'x)
Original illustrated wraps. 8vo. 351 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Between Tumbling Walls. Memoir of the author's experiences as a partisan in the Warsaw ghetto; Tuvia Borzykowskis memoir Tsvishn falndike vent, 1949, contains one of Holocaust literatures most detailed accounts of the fate of Warsaw and its Jews. It is important not only as a literary work but also for its detailed account of the inside workings of Jewish resistance against the Nazis in Warsaw. (Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature; pg. 25) . Borzykowski was a member of the Jewish Fighting Organization in Warsaw, and took part in both the Ghetto uprising and the later Warsaw uprising; he emigrated to Israel in 1949, where he died in 1959. Subjects: Borzykowski, Tuvia, 1911-1959. Warsaw (Poland) --History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943 -- Personal narratives. Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Uprising, 1944 -- Personal narratives. Warsaw (Poland) - Ethnic relations. OCLC 1323288658. Light wear to edge of wraps; spine label, Jewish institutional stamp on title page, a few other light marks, otherwise. Very good condition. (HOLO2-108-10AX-L-'ex)
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 62 pages. 16 cm. First edition. In French. Title translates as, The Extermination of the Jews of Warsaw. An early history and description of the Warsaw Ghetto and the uprising taking place in 1943, as well as subsequent uprisings in death camps. Told through eyewitness reports from a refugee who was able to escape to Switzerland. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. (Library of Congress, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Univ. Of Virginia, Univ. Libr de Bruxelles, Univ. Of Alberta, Bayerisch Staatsbibliothek, Herder Inst, Tel Aviv Univ. , Natl. Libr. Of Poland. Light shelf wear and page toning consistent with age. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-110-7)
Hardbound. 8vo. 255 [16] pages. 25 cm. First American edition. With 16 pages of plates. British edition published simultaneously under same title. Includes laid in fold-out page from the publishers advertising the book as concerns the sensational aspect wherein Barbie was a paid rat for the U. S. Secret services after the second world war ended. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities. War criminals - Germany - Biography. Barbie, Klaus, 1913-1991. Dustjacket lightly worn, outer edges lightly soiled. Clean. Very good condition. (HOLO2-88-43)
Paper wrappers, 39 pages, stapled at center. Series: Institute of Human Relations Press. Pamphlet series; SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany. National socialism. Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962. Very good condition. (HOLO2-38-3)