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Signed and inscribed by Jan Karski upon front free endpaper. Karski [1914-2000] recounts his experiences when his homeland of Poland was rent asunder by the joint Nazi and Soviet invasion of 1939, and his harrowing subsequent life as a member of the Polish underground, during which he was captured by the Gestapo and severely tortured. Provides a ghastly eyewitness account of life in the Warsaw ghetto, into which Karski was smuggled so his observations could be reported to the outside world. Firearms advocates will cringe at Karski's account of what happened after he and a large group of Polish soldiers handed over their weapons to their 'comrades' from the Soviet Union. In 2012 Karski was posthumously awarded America's highest civilan honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Obama. 391 pages. Moderate wear to publisher's red cloth. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Binding intact. A sound copy of this truly unforgettable WWII narrative. Laska 672, Kehr & Langmaid 5407, Weiner Library Catalogue Seven 997, Enser p.343. Book
231, [1] pages. 9.2" x 6.3". Waton (1871-1959) was a Jewish philosopher keenly interested in the works of Marx and Spinoza. In the Foreword, dated 1939, he states "I convinced myself that human society is irresistibly and inevitably moving towards state capitalism and fascism. Further reflection also convinced me that this social transformation would inevitably bring upon the Jews great suffering. How could the Jews face this world situation? This question occupied my mind for the last twelve years. At last I reached the conclusion which I embodied in a program for the Jews. When the Jews declared war against Nazi Germany and fascism (in 1933), I saw that as a suicidal policy. Thus passed more than five years of ever-increasing suffering for the Jews. When the situation became so grave that the Jews themselves began to realize the gravity of the situation, the Spinoza Institute of America asked me to formulate my program." On page 199 he adds "We have to face the fact that the Leader of the German people has no doubt in his mind that the Jewish problem is the centre of all problems, not merely in Germany, but in the world. It is useless to dismiss this as an illusion, because if it is, it demands explanation. But it is no illusion." Brilliant gilt lettering upon front board. Light external wear. Binding tight. Faint patches of soiling to boards. Occasional light pencil marginalia and underlining until page 21. Moderate age-toning to contents. It is left to readers to ponder the impact Waton's program could have had upon twentieth-century history. Book
1st edition. All original paper wrappers, 4to, each copy is 1 leaf folded in half, making [4] pages. Included are: No.50 (September 17, 1940), No. 52 (October 1, 1940), No. 62 (December 30, 1940), No. 71 (March 3, 1941), Nos. 74-80 (March 24 -May 5, 1941), No. 82 (May 19, 1941), Nos. 84-151 (June 2- September 21, 1942), Nos. 153-223 (October 5-February 7, 1944), Nos. 226-234 (February 28-April 24, 1944), Nos. 236-305 (May 8, 1944-December 15, 1945). The numbering system then changed and continues as Vol. VII, Nos 1-19 (January 1-October 1, 1946), all present. 249 issues total, nearly complete and uninterrupted from March 1941-October 1946. Fascinating exile publication, published weekly to alert other refugees, and American decision makers as well, about Nazi abuses in Czechoslovakia and resistance to them, from the great ("Sokol Property Seized: Nazis Destroy Great Czech National Monument) to the small ("Czech Farmers Refuse to Breed Pigs") . Some material on Jews. "News Flashes From Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Domination" ran 1939-1945, then, following the end of the war, continued as simply "News Flashes from Czechoslovakia, " through 1946. The Czechoslovak National Council was established during WWI to help with war efforts. Headlines include, Over 50,000 Czechs in Nazi Torture Chambers, (no. 50) New Persecution of Czech Catholics, (no. 52) Nazis admit Invasion of Czechoslovakia Before Dr. Hacha signed Agreement, (no. 74) German Refugees in Czechoslovakia, (no. 77) Nazis Selling Out in Protectorate, (no. 95) President F.D. Roosevelt on American-Czechoslovak Relations, (no. 115) New Nazi Government for Czechs, (no. 119) Every Seventh Worker in Hitlerland a Foreigner, (no. 120 Nazis Discover Sabotage in Czech Literature and Art, (no. 128) Just Retribution to Nazis Pledged by Czechoslovaks, (no. 139) Czechoslovak Labor Under Nazism, (no. 205) and Religious Situation in Czechoslovakia (Vol VII, no. 19). SUBJECT(S): History. 1938-1945 Czechoslovakia. Also included a publisher's notice about new name and printing schedule. OCLC: 2449105. A few issues have minor tearing and chipping, some are sunned, some have additional creasing from mailing. All are legible and intact. Majority are in Near Perfect Condition. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-159-10)
8vo; 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 4to (large), ca 50 pages per issue. In Yiddish. Title translates as, Existence: A Monthly Journal for Literature, Culture and Societal Problems. Tipped in Woodcut Ex-libris by A. Kolnik on cover of issue of 1949, #2-3; additional tipped in illustration on cover of 1949, # 4. Kiyum was a Yiddish monthly started by survivors in Paris, running 1948-1960; Succeeded by Unzer kiyum. Writing in 1952 about the Jewish periodicals in France over the preceding year, the American Jewish Year Book noted, "Particularly worthy of note was Kiyoum ("Existence"), a Yiddish monthly published by the Federation des Societes Juives de France, under the editorship of Israel Jefroykim. This magazine, which devoted its pages to the problems of continuity and creativity in Jewish life, had become one of the best of the serious magazines in Yiddish." [France," in The American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 52 (1951), p. 283]. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Juifs -- Pe´riodiques. Litte´rature yiddish. OCLC: 10153490. Some covers, on heavy paper, have become fragile and detached, or show other light edgewear, though most remain quite Good. Text pages are also browning, as expected, but remain generally free of chips and breaks. A very nice set (yid-42-25-L-xcce)
First edition. Original red boards with gold font. 4to, 150 pages, 32cm. Loaded with full page graphic anti-Nazi posters advocating American multiculturalism and promoting the US war effort, as well as drawings depicting Nazi atrocities, and photographs of B'nai B'rith leaders and other Jewish organizations, each graphic sponsored by a different Jewish business or family. Includes full page statement with photograph by Humphrey Bogart. Illustrated Diary of Events of the First Five Years of Westchester Lodge. Features quote by and portrait of Franklin Roosevelt, as well as stories, newspaper headlines, articles, and accounts of WWII and the people who fought to save Jews under the Nazi regime. We do not often see locally produced and focused material on Jews from a town or county fighting the Nazis SUBJECT(S) : World War II, American War Efforts, Jews. OCLC lists 4 holdings worldwide (NYPL, Fordham, HUC, Virginia Tech) , none west of Cincinnati. Slight toning to pages. Library stamp, some dust on original cover boards. Very good condition. Page after page of gorgeous Anti-fascist propaganda from the period! Scarce and important (Holo2-133-12)
1st edition. Original Boards in dust jacket. 8vo. [4], 104 pages. 19 cm. Fold out map by Kaufman titled, Map Showing Possible Dissection of Germany and Apportionment of Its Territory. This famous polemic outlines a comprehensive plan for the extinction of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth, of all her people. (Back cover) Self-published and at first obscure, this anti-German book became a central strategic piece for infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who referenced the book throughout World War II claiming it as proof of a Jewish threat to Germany, writing in his diary August 3, [1941], He really could not have done it better and more advantageously for us if he had written the book to order. I will have this book distributed in millions of copies in Germany, above all on the front, and will write a preface and afterword myself. It will be most instructive for every German man and for every German woman to see what would happen to the German people if, as in November 1918, a sign of weakness were given. (Herf, page 112, The Jewish Enemy) However, this mass publication plan never came to fruition, because Goebbels feared copyright problems. The U.S. was still not in the war, and he worried that the U.S. might retaliate by stripping German works in the U.S. of copyright protection. (Bytwerk, 2012) Instead, edited and editorialized selections of the book were published in the widely circulated Nazi pamphlet DAS KRIEGSZIEL DER WELTPLUTOKRATIE alongside claims that Kaufman was a close associate of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a member of his Brain Trust, and that Roosevelt himself had dictated some of Kaufmans words. (Bytwerk, 2012). Theodore Newman Kaufman (1910 -1986; his middle name sometimes given Nathan), was an American Jewish businessman, born to German-Jewish immigrant parents, who became known for his genocidal views on Germans. In 1941, he wrote and published Germany Must Perish! which called for the sterilization of the German people and the distribution of the German lands. The text was used extensively in Nazi propaganda, often as a justification for the persecution of Jews and was specifically cited as a reason to round up the Jews of Hanover, Germany .Kaufman was a radical intent on preventing American involvement in future wars in Europe. In 1939, under the auspices of the American Federation of Peace, an unknown entity of which he was the president and probably only member, Kaufman produced several publications. One pamphlet .read:A possible plea to Congress. ... Have Us All Sterilized! ... If You Plan On Sending Us To A Foreign War ... Spare Us Any Possibility Of Ever Bringing Children Into This World Into This Country Of Ours!It was with his famous fold-out map in Germany Must Perish, that Kaufman Germany and Austria showed how Germany and Austria could be dismembered; In those same pages he also advocated the forced mass-sterilization of all German men under 65 and the sterilization of most German women under 45. This would eliminate 'inbred Germanism,' he proposed, thus solving a great deal of humanity's problems. He also promoted the distribution of Germany's lands among the neighboring countries, illustrated in his famous map in his book. Indeed, His effort was spearheaded by the self-publication of the book Germany Must Perish! 'Since Germans are the perennial disturbers of the world's peace ... they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. ... The population of Germany, excluding conquered and annexed territories, is about 70,000,000, almost equally divided between male and female. To achieve the purpose of German extinction it would be necessary to only sterilize some 48,000,000 -- a figure which excludes, because of their limited power to procreate, males over 60 years of age, and females over 45. ...Complete sterilization of both sexes, and not only one, is to be considered necessary in view of the present German doctrine that so much as one drop of true German blood constitutes a German..... Kaufman's book gained attention in Nazi Germany, where propagandists used it as evidence of an international Jewish plan to destroy the German people. On July 24, 1941, the Nazi Party's newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, published a front-page article on the book titled: 'The Product of Criminal Jewish Sadism: Roosevelt Demands the Sterilization of the German People.' The newspaper alleged that Kaufman was a close ally of Samuel Irving Rosenman, an advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and that: 'Given the close relationship of the writer to the White House, this monstrous war program can be seen as a synthesis of genuine Talmudic hatred and Roosevelt's views on foreign policy.' At the time, the German leadership was engaged in a propaganda campaign designed to rally popular support for the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Antisemitism in general, and Kaufman's ideas in particular, became a focus of this campaign.Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels read the book in early August and immediately grasped its value, writing in his diary: 'This Jew did a real service for the enemy [German] side. Had he written this book for us, he could not have made it any better.' Under Goebbels' direction, Germany Must Perish! continued to receive significant media attention in Germany. Portions of the book were read on national radio, and Goebbels ordered the printing of five million copies of a pamphlet that summarized Kaufman's ideas.As an example, Kaufman was condemned on the August 1942 edition of the Nazi wall newspaper Parole der Woche [see photo] Nazi propaganda often used Kaufman's pamphlet as a justification for the persecution of Jews. When the Nazis required German Jews to wear a yellow badge on their clothing on September 1, 1941, they published a flyer explaining to the German people that those individuals wearing the star were conspiring to implement Kaufman's plan for the destruction of Germany. When the Jews of Hanover were forced from their homes on September 8, 1941, German authorities cited Kaufman's book as one of the reasons .The Nazi propaganda ministry continued to publish pamphlets, posters and flyers on Kaufman's ideas through the end of the war, and also urged newspapers and public speakers to remind Germans of Kaufman's book. Kaufman's last major appearance in Nazi propaganda occurred in late 1944, when a five-page section on him was included in the widely published booklet Never!, which described a number of alleged plots to destroy Germany. Randall Bytwerk, an historian of communications at Calvin College, concluded that '[a] German at the time could not have missed encountering' propaganda about Kaufman. The Nation Magazine (Nov 14, 1942) noted, Few Americans have ever heard of a prominent fellow-citizen named Kaufmann ... In Germany every child has known of him for a long time. Germans are so well informed about Mr. Kaufmann that the mere mention of his name recalls what he stands for. In one of his recent articles Dr. Goebbels wrote, 'Thanks to the Jew Kaufmann, we Germans know only too well what to expect in case of defeat.' (Wikipedia) "On 1 September 1941 all Jews remaining in Germany were forced to wear the Yellow Star when in public. In late September 1941, the Nazis released a remarkable mass pamphlet based on a book published in the United States titled 'Germany Must Perish!' The book proposed the partitioning of Germany and the sterilization of its population. The author, Theodore N. Kaufman, was an American Jew of no influence. The pamphlet, titled 'The War Aim of World Plutocracy,' [see photo] included excerpts from Kaufmans book. In early November 1941, this four-page flyer was released. It justified the Yellow Star by reminding Germans of Kaufmans pamphlet, which supposedly was the common goal of 'World Jewry.' Howard K. Smiths 1942 book Last Train from Berlin (p. 197) states that every German got copies of the pamphlet along with the monthly ration card" (Calvin College German Propaganda Archive, 2022). Includes bibliographical references on page 104. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945. Politics and government National socialism -- Foreign public opinion, American. Pangermanism. National characteristics, German. Germans -- Foreign countries. -- Reparations. Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany. Allemagne -- Politique et gouvernement. In 25 years this is only the 3rd copy of the 1st edition, in hardback, we have ever seen, and only the second in a dust jacket. The 96 page paperback second edition, though scarce, is far more common. Later reprints of American Neo-Nazi groups were distributed to "prove" Goebel's claims about the Jewish conspiracy against Germany. (More at https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/kriegsziel.htm; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Must_Perish!) OCLC: 3619129. Dust Jacket in about very good condition with light edge wear, protected in mylar cover. Light shelf wear. Some discoloration to end pages Binding is tight. Text block is fresh and clean. Very good + condition in about Very Good Jacket. Rare and important (HOLO2-109-62-AELXCC+)
xviii, 222 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "When the Germans invaded Hungary in 1944, they immediately shipped virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. Separated from his family, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli [1901-1956] was chosen to direct the medical pathology work carried on among the prisoners by the Nazis for the purpose of 'scientific research' in that most infamous of all concentration camps. Through the doctor's eyes, we relive not only the day-to-day horrors of life in the KZ but also witness the slow disintegration of an empire built to last a thousand years. What Dr. Nyiszli lived through few will want to believe or even read about." - dust jacket. "Tells of events which, though gruesome, need to be told and retold until their meaning for our times is accepted." - Foreword. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Foxing to top edge. Prior owner's details written and stamped upon front endpaper. Name stamped on top edge. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important account. Laska 1317, Enser p.114. Book
1st edition. Folio. Newspaper. Illustrated throughout. Includes many advertisements and numerous personal family announcements. Following the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938, Jewish life in Germany and Czechoslovakia was even further curtailed and all remaining Jewish newspapers were shut down by the government. In their place, the Nazi Party ordered the creation of a single, new Jewish newspaper, "Das Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt, " that would be directly under Gestapo control. It was published concurrently in Berlin, Vienna and Prague and was occupied to a large extent with announcing the ever-increasing number of anti-Semitic discriminations, orders and exclusions imposed by the Reich government. Over the course of its history, the editors of the Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt were Leo Kreindler (1938-42) and Willi Pless (1942-43) . The Berlin edition ran from the 23rd November, 1938 until the final issue of 4th June 1943. The Prague edition continued until 1945. In a ghoulish twist of Nazi irony, Gentiles were forbidden from reading the Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt yet the newspaper's targeted readership, the Jews, were literally hounded to their deaths by the very authorities who presided over the newspaper's ownership! See Reiner Burger, Von Goebbels Gnaden: "Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt" 1938-1943 (2001) . A mixed collection of 102 issues from Berlin and Prague sold at auction in 2015 for 9225.00 USD. These issues were at one point bound, but the binding was at some point removed. The newsprint is brown and quite fragile, with edgwear and old dampstains, but there is generally little text loss, except to a few letters on the lower outer margins of the final 10 issues. Now housed in an acid-free sleeved portfolio, with each issue in a separate clear sleeve for easy protected viewing. Fair condition, but very rare, very important, and very powerful. (kh-5-47)
5704 (1944). Original blank paper wrappers. 8vo. 64 pages. 21 cm. Reprinted in early 1944 for Jewish refugees in Switzerland with some additional notations. In Hebrew and German in parallel columns (with diacritic vowel marks under the Hebrew, and with Yiddish translation between Hebrew). Original 1938 title page, with verso 1944 German title page: Den jüdischen Flüchtlingen in der Schweiz; Zur Feier des [Pesakh]-Festes im Jahre 5704; überreicht vom Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebund. (For the Jewish Refugees in Switzerland; For the celebration of Pesakh in the year 5704; presented by the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities). Copyright by Lehrberger & Co. of Frankfurt. A European-published hagada from the darkest period of the Holocaust, produced specifically for those feeling the inferno. During 1943 and 1944, the extermination camps were working at a furious rate to kill the hundreds of thousands of people shipped to them by rail from almost every country within the German sphere of influence, and by the spring of 1944, up to 8,000 people were being gassed every day at Auschwitz (USHMM, 2012). Passover 1944 began on April 8, the day that the roundups of the Jews of Carpatho-Ruthenia and northern Hungary started. On April 14, the last day of the Holiday, László Endre & László Baky (German-installed heads of the Ministry of the Interior) and Eichmann made the official decision to deport all the Jews of Hungary. With ten illustrations; an early 19th century German Orthodox Haggadah originally compiled by Wolf Heidenheim in 1822. Published for German-Jewish refugees in Switzerland under the auspices of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, founded in 1904 to help protect the general interest of Jews in Switzerland; during the second world war, the Federation helped support the refugee community in Switzerland: Prior to and during the Second World War, Switzerland gave refuge to about 23,000 Jewish refugees although the government decided that Switzerland would serve only as a country of transit. These Jews were protected during the Holocaust due to Swiss neutrality. The Jewish refugees, however, did not receive the financial support from the government that non-Jewish refugees received. Many more Jews were prevented from entering, effectively shutting the border. (Jewish Virtual Library; Switzerland). The publishers, Goldschmidt, issued an earlier printing in 1940 (listed in one library on OCLC), no copies of this issue (1944) listed in libraries on oclc. Subjects: Haggada shel Pesah. German-Jewish Refugees - Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebund. Holocaust. Previous Owner's name on front wrappers, with "Zurich 5" written underneath. Wraps lightly soiled, with small tear at bottom of backstrip; otherwise Very good condition. Rare and important. (HOLO2-104-15)
1st Edition. 4to. Later Blue Boards with Original Wrappers bound inside for each issue. A full run of the first 3 years of The Jewish Tribune, from the year 1933 to 1936. 36 issues in total running about 1100 pages. Note that though these are consecutive they are marked as Volumes 1, 2, and 6. Includes a 1934 article titled, The Holocaust in Germany, " an EXTREMELY early use of this term to describe the growing attacks on the Jews of Germany by the Nazis. This rare run of the first three years of Bombays first Zionist periodical is inscribed by Joseph Sargon, who worked as managing editor of the Jewish Tribune during the publication of these issues. Born and educated in Bombay, Mr. Sargon came to the United States in 1939 (land lived in Brookline) after serving as managing editor of the Bombay Jewish Tribune for 13 years. During his world travels, he interviewed and wrote articles about Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and other figures. (Boston Globe, 1990) The Bombay Tribune was established by the nephews of Nissim Elias Benjamin Ezra. N. E. B. Ezra, was a Baghdadi Jewish publisher and Zionist based in Shanghai. He founded the Shanghai Zionist Association in 1903 and its official newspaper, Israel's Messenger, one of China's oldest and most sophisticated Jewish periodicals Influenced by Ezra, his nephews started the newspaper Jewish Tribune in Bombay, India. (Wikipeida, 2017) These 36 issues of the Tribune include the 1st appearance of many articles and editorials from some of the leading Jewish thinkers from across the world including: NEB Ezra, Bernard S. Deutsch, Rabbi Julius J. Price, Haham Moses Gaster, Emanuel Neumann, Israel Cohen, Khan Bahadur Jackson B. Israel, Jl Magnes, Samuel Magnus, David Sassoon, Rabbi Leo Jung, Jl Landau, Rabbi Schlesinger, Laszlo Schwartz, Louis Golding, Jh Hertz (Then Chief Rabbi Of British Empire) , Jacob De Haas, Rabbi D. De Sola Pool, Edward Jacobs, Mrs. Israel Davidson, Lily Tobias, H. Pereira Mendez, Rabbi Benjamin Ouziel, and Cyrus Adler. Includes a few early reporting articles about Nazi Anti-Semitism, early reporting on the 1934 Nepal-Bihar Earthquake, and a few articles about Mahatma Gandhi, among other topics of Jewish and Zionist interest. Period Advertisements throughout. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Bookplate and Usual Markings. Inscribed by Sargon on the Front-End Page. Also includes Sargons Personal Bookplate/Nametag. Damp Stains throughout and pages are wavy. Some edgewear. Overall in good condition. (SEF-55-8B)
1st edition. Portfolio, Folio-size, [4] p., xvi leaves of plates, all illustrations. 32 cm. Text in Polish . 16 duotone watercolors of camp life, each accompanied by a textual description of a paragraph or two in the introduction. SUBJECT(S): Geographic: Oranienburg (Concentration camp) -- Pictorial works. Sachsenhausen (Brandenburg, Germany : Concentration camp) -- Pictorial works. OCLC lists only 3 sets worldwide (Yale, U of Illinois, NANTERRE-BDIC in France), none in New York and None in Poland. Extremely scarce. Some images from this portfolio (not originals, but prints, from this very edition, the same as these) are on display via the Museum of the Jews in Poland (in Warsaw) Former owner's numbers in margins of plates, not affecting images. Plates and introduction in Good Condition; Original portfolio with dramatic color graphic on cover is present, but lacks spine and shows heavy wear. (holo2-125-9)
1st edition. Loose sheets as issued, in later custom clamshell box with original portfolio cover mounted on front. 4to. One of 3200 Numbered Copies. 111 plates of drawings, the first 100 relating to Buchenwald, plus 6 portraits, and 5 aquarelles in color. Captions in French, English, and Russian. 26 cm. Title page and preface in French. Boris Taslitzky began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the academie Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1925 and 1933. In 1933, he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (A. É. AR) where he became general secretary of the section of Painters and Sculptors, and then in 1935, he joined the Communist Party. In 1936, during the presentation of Quatorze Juillet, by Romain Rolland , Taslitzky participated in the exhibition that brought together Picasso , Léger , Matisse , Braque , Jean Lurcat , Laurens and Pinion in the lobby of the Alhambra Theatre. Taslitzky was captured in June 1940, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison, and then on July 31, 1944 was deported to Buchenwald , where he manages to make some two hundred drawings showing life in the camps. "If I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn! ... ", he later said. His mother died at Auschwitz . In 1946, Taslitzky exhibited his works which were inspired by the Resistance and Deportation, winning the Prix Blumenthal. He was later awarded the Military Cross and Military Medal and in 1997 he received the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour under the Resistance and Deportation. He was both witness and actor in the story of French Resistance and the Holocaust. SUBJECT(S) : Concentration camps -- Pictorial works. Buchenwald (Camp de) Guerre mondiale 1939-1945. Prisonniers et déportés. Camps allemands. Buchenwald. Album. Concentration camps. Pictorial works. Wear to original illustrated cover, which has been mounted on front of box, but no damage to illustration. Moving, early, and important. (holo2-125-44) xx
Original Wraps. 4to (large) . 48 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In French. Rare extremely early (1945) illustrated French Exposition of Nazi Crimes. Catalogue, in magazine format, of Nazi crimes; illustrated throughout; with testimony, articles, and prefatory declarations by P. Teitgen, Bidault, Soustelle, and Frenay, denouncing the Nazi Crimes. Illustrated throughout; emphasizes the crimes of Vichy as well. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition 'Crimes hitlériens'-Déclarations, articles, souvenirs. Sections as follows: l'allemagne et le nazisme, l'ordre hitlérien (congrès de Nuremberg, charnier de Belsen) Mensonges et pattes de velours, le vol de la terre, la guerre biologique, avec une composition de Paul Colin, pleine page, SS et gestapo, Buchenwald, témoignages de ceux qui "en" sont revenus, camp de femmes , l'homme cobaye, bloc 46, le criminel de guerre. [Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Crimes hitlériens' Declarations, articles, memories. Sections as follows: Germany and Nazism, Hitler's order (the Nuremberg Congress, the grave of Belsen) Lies and velvet paws, theft of land, biological warfare, with a composition of Paul Colin, full screen, SS and Gestapo, Buchenwald, testimonies of those who survived, the women's camp, the pig man, block 46, the war criminal. ]Subjects: Guerre mondiale 1939-1945. Atrocités allemandes. OCLC lists only one copy worldwide (Nanterre) , located in France. Scarce. Damage to lower left coner, no loss of text, otherwise, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-117-4)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 32 pages, chiefly photographic illustrations. 16 cm. Exhibition of Photographic Images of German Concentration Camps and Destroyed Arnhem. Catalog for the exhibition, with 24 pages of full-page photos, plus 8 pages of photo descriptions. Text in Dutch. On page 10 is the famous and controversial photo of the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald (first published in the "New York Times" on May 6, 1945 with the caption "Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald" taken inside Block 56 by Private H. Miller of the Civil Affairs Branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945.) . In the year following the defeat of the Nazis, exhibitions of photos showing the horrors of the Concentration Camps were a way to show the people of Europe what had been done by the Germans and their allies, and, eventually, to build support for the idea of War Crimes trials. Foto's ... Afgestaan door de U. S. I. S. (United States Information Service, Photographic Section, Amsterdam) en Jan Schiet, fotograaf, Amsterdam. Despite the title, there are no pictures nor text referring to Arnhem in the bookonly from the concentration camps. The Arnhem material may have appeared only in the exhibition itself. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide, all in the Netherlands (Sept 2015) . Blue wrappers are sunned with some spotting, spine repaired, otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important. (holo2-126-33A) xx
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 32 pages, chiefly photographic illustrations. 16 cm. Exhibition of Photographic Images of German Concentration Camps and Destroyed Arnhem. Catalog for the exhibition, with 24 pages of full-page photos, plus 8 pages of photo descriptions. Text in Dutch. On page 10 is the famous and controversial photo of the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald (first published in the "New York Times" on May 6, 1945 with the caption "Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald" taken inside Block 56 by Private H. Miller of the Civil Affairs Branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945.) . In the year following the defeat of the Nazis, exhibitions of photos showing the horrors of the Concentration Camps were a way to show the people of Europe what had been done by the Germans and their allies, and, eventually, to build support for the idea of War Crimes trials. Foto's ... Afgestaan door de U. S. I. S. (United States Information Service, Photographic Section, Amsterdam) en Jan Schiet, fotograaf, Amsterdam. Despite the title, there are no pictures nor text referring to Arnhem in the bookonly from the concentration camps. The Arnhem material may have appeared only in the exhibition itself. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide, all in the Netherlands (Sept 2015) . Blue wrappers are sunned with some spotting, otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important. (holo2-126-33) xx
Together 27 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 2 large folding charts; original printed wrappers, one or two backstrips scuffed at head and tail else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. The extended set comprises: Part 1: 20 Nov 1945 to 1 Dec 1945 (1946); Part 2: 3 Dec 1945 to 14 Dec 1945 (1946); Part 3: 17 Dec 1945 to 4 Jan 1946 (1946); Part 4: 7 Jan 1946 to 19 Jan 1946 (1946); Part 5: 21 Jan 1946 to 1 Feb 1946 (1946); Part 6: 2 Feb 1946 to 13 Feb 1946 (1947); Part 7: 14 Feb 1946 to 26 Feb 1946 (1947); Part 8: 27 Feb 1946 to 11 March 1946 (1947); Part 9: 12 March 1946 to 22 March 1946 (1947); Part 10: 23 March 1946 to 3 April 1946 (1947); Part 11: 4 April 1946 to 15 April 1946 (1947); Part 12: 16 April 1946 to 1 May 1946 (1947); Part 13: 2 May 1946 to 13 May 1946 (1947); Part 14: 14 May 1946 to 24 May 1946 (1947); Part 15: 27 May 1946 to 6 June 1946 (1948); Part 16: 7 June 1946 to 19 June 1946 (1948); Part 17: 20 June 1946 to 1 July 1946 (1948); Part 18: 2 July 1946 to 15 July 1946 (1948); Part 19: 16 July 1946 to 27 July 1946 (1949); Part 20: 29 July 1946 to 8 August 1946 (1949); Part 21: 9 August 1946 to 21 August 1946 (1949); Part 22: 22 August 1946 to 31 August 1946; 30 Sept 1946 and 1 October 1946 (1950); Part 23: Index (1951). WITH Opening Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors (1946); Speeches of the Prosecutors against the Indicted Organisations (1946); Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors against the Individual Defendants (1946); Judgement of the International Military Tribunal (with the Dissenting Opinion of the Soviet Member) (1946). Volume 1 includes the folding chart of the organisation of the NSDAP; Volume 3 contains the folding chart of the organisation of the SS. EXTENDED SETS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE.
1st edition, Later cloth with original wrappers bound in, 4to, approximately 200 leaves. 28 1/2cm. "Published ... Under the auspices of the American Jewish congress. "-- Foreword. Collection of detailed reports on the Jewish persuctions as of late 1941 throughout Europe, and organized by region, with anecdotal as well as statistical evidence and sources cited. The report came out just 2 months before the notorious Wansee Conference where German extermination policy became official, and the reports here, in detail and in in broad brush stroakes, reflect the quickly deteriorating situation for Jews under German occupation. For example from the Polish section: We must declare at the very outset that words are powerless to portray the agony and suffering of Polish Jewry in the 80 days of Germany role. The hell-like reality of the Polish Jews, a hell-like reality which has already lasted more than 80o days, and where literally every minute, every second demands Jewish victims, without a stop, without any interruption, and the hand of the torturer and murderer, the robber and offender is still unwearied, --this reality is not to he described in words. Let the reader multiply what is described tenfold, twentyfold, and he will perhaps come near to an idea of the life of our brothers under the German lash (p. POL-9) Sections include: Greater Germany, Rumania, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxemburg, Holland, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Finland, Nazi-Soviet War Area, Refugees, Relief, & Conclusions. Prepared by the Institute of Jewish Affairs ; submitted to the Inter-American Jewish Conference, November 23-24-25, 1941, Baltimore, Md. Includes refugee and relief activity at conclusion, and 2 pages of corrections and addenda at rear. Even at this date, of course, the nature of the what was to be the total devastation was not yet clear. Very Good Condition. Rare. With original hole punches, as issued. Ex-library, but only one stamp on original pages, to blank rear of title page. Other markings are only to later-added endpapers and binding, not to any original pages, Very Good Condition thus. An important collection of evidence from the period. (Holo2-120-27)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to, approximately 200 leaves. 28 1/2cm. "Published ... Under the auspices of the American Jewish congress. "-- Foreword. Collection of detailed reports on the Jewish persuctions as of late 1941 throughout Europe, and organized by region, with anecdotal as well as statistical evidence and sources cited. The report came out just 2 months before the notorious Wansee Conference where German extermination policy became official, and the reports here, in detail and in in broad brush stroakes, reflect the quickly deteriorating situation for Jews under German occupation. For example from the Polish section: We must declare at the very outset that words are powerless to portray the agony and suffering of Polish Jewry in the 80 days of Germany role. The hell-like reality of the Polish Jews, a hell-like reality which has already lasted more than 80o days, and where literally every minute, every second demands Jewish victims, without a stop, without any interruption, and the hand of the torturer and murderer, the robber and offender is still unwearied, --this reality is not to he described in words. Let the reader multiply what is described tenfold, twentyfold, and he will perhaps come near to an idea of the life of our brothers under the German lash (p. POL-9) Sections include: Greater Germany, Rumania, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxemburg, Holland, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Finland, Nazi-Soviet War Area, Refugees, Relief, & Conclusions. Prepared by the Institute of Jewish Affairs ; submitted to the Inter-American Jewish Conference, November 23-24-25, 1941, Baltimore, Md. Includes refugee and relief activity at conclusion, and 2 pages of corrections and addenda at rear. Even at this date, of course, the nature of the what was to be the total devastation was not yet clear. Very Good Condition. Rare. With original hole punches, as issued. Markings on endpaper, title page, and back wrapper. Very Good Condition thus. An important collection of evidence from the period. (Holo2-120-27A)
1st edition. original Paper Wrappers, 4to, [48] pages. Unpaginated. Text in Hungarian. Mostly illustrations. One of the first collections of Holocaust drawings published after the war. Original illustrated wrappers with red lettering on front cover. A pictorial album by Holocaust survivor Péter Áldor, depicting the atrocities of the German occupation and the repression of the local fascists. This work is profusely illustrated with 18 heart-gripping sketches illustrating in all its horror, human madness and misery. Light stains and wear to cover, internally extremely clean, Overall Very Good Condition, a nice copy. (Holo2-125-25)
Original Wraps. 4to. 112, [1] pages. 28 cm. First edition. In French. Includes 50 original color illustrations throughout of Compiegne Gusen 2, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, & Gusen 1. Illustrated narrative by the artist and survivor Bernard Aldebert. Jean Bernard-Aldebert (1909-1974) was born in Saint-Etienne, and began his career as an illustrator for Le Pêle-Mêle in 1928. He was arrested and deported to the Gusan extermination camp in early 1944, after publishing a satirical drawing in Ric et Rac. His deportation was via Compiegne, KZ Buchenwald, KZ Mauthausen, KZ Gusen I to KZ Gusen II (Bergkristall-Esche II underground plant) . One of the very few survivors of Gusen, he captured his experiences during this ordeal in the album 'Chemin de Croix en 50 Stations', published by the Arthème Fayard group in 1946 (Lambiek Comicopedia, 2014) . Subjects: Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) - Camps de concentration - Récits personnels français. Déportés français - 1939-1945 - Récits personnels français. Gusen (Concentration camp) - Pictorial works. Gusen (Concentration camp) . Pictorial works. OCLC lists 19 copies. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-118-31) xx
Original Wraps. 4to. [32] pages. 27 cm. First edition. In French. Catalogue of the Exposition Crimes hitlériens. Page [2] contains color reproduction of lithograph poster 'S. S. Crimes Hitlériens' exhibition in Paris at the Grand-Palais, which was originally held from June 10 until July 31, 1945. Committee of honor includes Mitterand; organizing committee includes Coste-Floret, Boissieu, Webel, Paoli, Herst, Billiet. Page [3] includes plan and legend for lay out of the exposition. Complete illustrated throughout, in red and black ink. Includes many gruesome photos of the fate met by members of the French Resistance throughout France, photographs from the Struthof Camp, tallies of deportations of French Jews, tallies of the numbers of forced laborers from France, etc. In June 1945, the French government sponsored a huge exhibition, filling twenty-nine rooms of the Grand Palais, entitled 'Hitler's Crimes'. One of the rooms was devoted, according to the catalogue, to 'The Jews'. It presented a chronology of the internment of Jews in the French Camps of Pithiviers, Beuane-la-Rolande, and Drancy, in the occupied zone, and at Gurs in Southwestern France under the rule of Vichy. It also gave a tally of deportations from Drancy to Germany: 62, 608. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945-Atrocities-Exhibitions World War, 1939-1945-France-Exhibitions France-History-German occupation, 1940-1945-Exhibitions. OCLC lists 6 copies. Some wear and staining to wraps. Closed tears, tape repairs and pen markings. Interior clean and fresh. Good condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-118-28A)
Original Wraps. 4to. [32] pages. 27 cm. First edition. In French. Catalogue of the Exposition Crimes hitlériens. Page [2] contains color reproduction of lithograph poster 'S. S. Crimes Hitlériens' exhibition in Paris at the Grand-Palais, which was originally held from June 10 until July 31, 1945. Committee of honor includes Mitterand; organizing committee includes Coste-Floret, Boissieu, Webel, Paoli, Herst, Billiet. Page [3] includes plan and legend for lay out of the exposition. Complete illustrated throughout, in red and black ink. Includes many gruesome photos of the fate met by members of the French Resistance throughout France, photographs from the Struthof Camp, tallies of deportations of French Jews, tallies of the numbers of forced laborers from France, etc. In June 1945, the French government sponsored a huge exhibition, filling twenty-nine rooms of the Grand Palais, entitled 'Hitler's Crimes'. One of the rooms was devoted, according to the catalogue, to 'The Jews'. It presented a chronology of the internment of Jews in the French Camps of Pithiviers, Beuane-la-Rolande, and Drancy, in the occupied zone, and at Gurs in Southwestern France under the rule of Vichy. It also gave a tally of deportations from Drancy to Germany: 62, 608. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945-Atrocities-Exhibitions World War, 1939-1945-France-Exhibitions France-History-German occupation, 1940-1945-Exhibitions. OCLC lists 6 copies. Creased, hole in front cover, light wear to wraps. Interior unaffected. Good condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-118-28B)
1st edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 4to (large) , 34 pages. Loaded with illustrations. Event program. Striking cover illustration and one text illustration by Mitchell Loeb. Includes illustrations in text (halftones) and a section of ads. The World Labor Athletic Carnival was organized to directly oppose U. S. Athletes' participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, which were viewd as providing both legitimacy and a prime propaganda opportunity to Hitler's Nazi government. Put together in 1936 by a coalition of New York left-wing political organizations and labor unions including the heavily Jewish International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) , the Socialist and Communist Parties, the Jewish Labor Committee, and others, the Carnival took place over two days, coinciding with the two final days of the Berlin Games, and involved an array of high-profile American, Canadian, and a few international competitors including high-jumper Walter Marty, sprinters Eulace Peacock and Perrin Walker, and pole vaulter George Varoff. In the end, the Carnival proved something of a disappointment from both an attendance and an athletic perspective. Aside from Varoff's world-record setting performance in the pole vault, "... The New York Herald Tribune described the athletic performances as 'mediocre' and noted that the spectators were unenthusiastic'" (for a detailed account of the event, see Edward S. Shapiro, "The World Labor Athletic Carnival of 1936: an American Anti-Nazi Protest, " in American Jewish History v.74, no.3 (Mar 1985) , pp.255-273) . No copies anywhere in OCLC. Exceedlingly rare, we have never seen a copy offered for sale. Slightly stained and creased, but Very Good. A few event results have been supplied by the original owner in pencil. (holo2-149-1)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 16 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In French. Buchenwald; 2me année, no 5. 'Special number'. Dated May 1945. Illustrated brochure on the horrors of Buchenwald. Demands vengeance for the dead. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Pictorial works. Concentration camps - Pictorial works. Concentration camps. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Pictorial works. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Aged, edges of cover previously strengthened with tape, overall clean and fresh. Good condition. (HOLO2-124-10) xx
First edition and 1 of 5000 copies published. Period boards with photographic front cover mounted on front. 4to, 136 pages. Folio. In Russian. Jewish Massacre. 1918-1921. With numerous photographic illustrations. A detailed album highlighting the horrific results of a wave of ferocious pogroms afflicted upon Jewish communities in the Ukraine including Skvira (Skver) , Poltava, Uman, Kiev and Yelizavetgrad during the Civil War years of 1918-21. The text has a distinctly Nationalist element, portraying Jews saved from the attacking native population by the Red Army. The publication was issued by Z. S. Ostrovsky on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Aid to Victims of Pogroms. With well over 200 photos, this work is based on an exhibit of images and documents put together by the Jewish Committee of Victims of Pogroms which was shown in 1923 in Moscow. Its a brutal depiction of the third set of pogroms which swept in Russia from 1918 and 1921 in the wake of the Russian Revolution, much worse than the earlier massacres in the 1880s and then again in 1903-1906. This post-war set of pogroms were led by bands of soldiers from the disintegrating tsarist army. Ostrovsky's work doesnt state the fact that the first pogroms to be accompanied by slaughter of Jews were perpetrated by units of the Red Army which retreated from the Ukraine in the spring of 1918 before the German army. These pogroms took place under the slogan "Strike at the bourgeoisie and the Jews." The Jewish communities of Novgorod-Severski and Glukhov in northern Ukraine were the most severely affected. These pogroms reached their climax in the massacre at Proskurov on Feb. 15, 1919, when 1,700 Jews were done to death within a few hours. On the following day, a further 600 victims fell in the neighboring village of Felshtin (Gvardeiskoye). Those responsible for these pogroms went unpunished, and henceforward the Ukrainian soldiers considered themselves free to spill Jewish blood. The Jews regarded Simon Petlyura, the prime minister of the Ukraine and commander of its forces, as responsible for these pogroms. The general chaos which reigned in the Ukraine in 1919 resulted in the formation of large and small bands of peasants who fought against the Red Army. The Jews in the villages, shtetls, and towns there were constantly terrorized by the peasants, who extorted money and supplies from them or robbed and murdered them. One of the most notorious pogroms carried out by the peasant bands was that in Trostyanets in May 1919, when over 400 people lost their lives. In the fall of 1919, there was a wave of pogroms committed by the counterrevolutionary White Army, under the command of General A.I. Denikin. (credit: Klinebooks). See Z. Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union 1881 to the Present (1988) pp. 97-108. SUBJECT(S): Pogroms -- Soviet Union. Jews -- Persecutions Antisemitism -- Massacres -- Jews -- Ukraine. -- Belarus. -- URSS. Juifs -- Perse´cutions -- URSS. Antise´mitisme -- Massacres -- Juifs -- Bie´lorussie. Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921. URSS -- Histoire -- 1917-1921 (Re´volution) OCLC: 702135039. OCLC lists 18 copies. Clean internal binding repair, paper toning, wear to boards, later front blank endpaper loose, Good Condition. Dramatic piece. (SPEC-35-4-BLV).
