Holocauste

Schritte des Todes: Traumgedichte.

180x125 mm. XII+33 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Jacket slightly yellowing and tattered. Cover edges and corners slightly wrinkled. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.

AMERIKADIENST DER VDA PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN; PROPAGANDA GEGEN BLUFF; 1939, NR. 1

1st edition. Large Broadsheet. 6 pages.63x60cm. Large tri-fold broadsheet, six pages of texttotal, single sided, printed on blue paper. In German and English. The Verein für Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen im Ausland,abbreviated VDA, is a German cultural organisation. During the Nazi era it wasengaged in spying across the whole world, using German minorities living inother countries. The “American Service Press Sheet” issue nr 1, entitled “Propaganda against Bluff”. Possibly the only issue of this propaganda sheet printed in Berlin. The English and German columns are written by German-Americans who returned to Nazi Germany; overall, the broadsheet attempts to confer a pluralistic legitimacy upon Nazi Germany, by emphasizing that Germans have a special culture and tradition, and thus argues for an American pacifist and potential pro-nazi political line. The English section was written by an unknown author, who states in his editorial – “Let us be friends!”- that he lived in the United States for 12 years, and that American democracy, though the best for its people, is rife with contradictions, as opposed to Nazi Germany, that of a strong state with supposedly no corruption; the author also mentions his thanks for being friends with so many different northern European peoples while living in America, and generally utilizes the discourse of a liberal, anti-discrimination perspective from the new deal era and grafts it onto the German-American experience, allowing the author to produce various subtle lies such as the immense importance of German-Americans to American culture, the overwhelming amount of German-American farmers, etc. The author of the English section only once points out that his enemy is the jew, and only once proclaims himself a national socialist; overall, a very strange and alarming work of propaganda produced in Berlin, custom-tailored for a pro-nazi and gullible liberal pacifist audience alike. Possibly a work of the Intelligence agency of the SS; undoubtedly distributed on the East coast by pro-nazi Germans. Subjects: NASDAP. Anti-semitism. Propaganda. Not listed on OCLC. Edges extremely fragile, upper corner loss on all pages, affecting text. Fair condition. (LB-5-16A)

DIE ZUKUNFT DER JUDEN

Original Wraps. 8vo. 91 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In German. 'The Future of the Jews. ' A controversial work on the economic position of diaspora Jewry. Werner Sombart (1863–1941) , “German political economist and sociologist. Born in Ermsleben, Sombart acquired a reputation through his work Der Moderne Kapitalismus (2 vols. , 1902, 1916) in which he traced the development of capitalism from the late Middle Ages. In 1917 he was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Berlin. He wrote two works on capitalism and the Jews: Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben (1911; The Jews and Modern Capitalism, 1913, 1951) , and Die Zukunft der Juden (1912) which aroused considerable controversy. In Sombart's view, the Jews were the principal cause of the disruption of the medieval economic system and its replacement by capitalism. The Jews, he held, were foreigners and came up against the hostility of the guilds which controlled the commerce of the medieval cities. Consequently they sought to break away from the restrictive economic framework of city life and, by doing so, became the pioneers of international trade. In this way they helped to lay the foundation of the capitalist system. Sombart maintained that the Jewish intellect, 'concrete, stubborn, and systematic, ' was ideally suited to fostering a capitalist economy: 'When Israel appears upon the face of Europe, the place where it appears comes to life; and when it departs, everything which had previously flourished withers away. ' Such statements made for the ambivalent reception of Sombart's work among Jews at the time. Thus, while liberal Jews strongly criticized Sombart as an antisemite, others, particularly in the Zionist camp, praised him as a nonpartisan researcher and held up his theses as evidence of Jewish perseverance and as acknowledgement of the special contribution of the Jews. ” - EJ 2008. Subjects: Civilization - Jewish influences. Jews - Germany - Social conditions. Civilization - Jewish influences. Ethnic relations. Jews - Social conditions. Germany - Ethnic relations. Wraps bumped, slightly torn along backstrip, light soiling to outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-43-41)

Shmuel Soltz [SIGNED BY ARTIST]

SIGNED BY ARTIST. 270x220 mm. 78 pages. Softcover. Cover yellowing. Spine edges slightly worn. Else in good condition.

The Struma Incident : A Novel of the Holocaust

174 pages. The unforgettable story of courageous men and women who had only a rusty riverboat to carry them in their desperate fight from Hitler's gas chambers. The product of years of intensive research. Translated into English from Romanian. Unmarked. Average wear to book. Above average wear to dust jacket which is now in an archival-grade Brodart dust jacket cover. Solid copy. Book

EXILFORSCHUNG. EIN INTERNATIONALES JAHRBUCH BAND 2. 1984. ERINNERUNGEN ANS EXIL-KRITISCHE LEKTURE DER AUTOBIOGRAPHIEN NACH 1933 UND ANDERE THEMEN.

Wrappers; 8vo. 415 pages. In German. Volume 2 of a German serial publication. Twenty articles, with notes and short author biographies. Exiles -- History -- 20th century -- Periodicals. Refugees -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Periodicals. Exiles -- Biography -- Periodicals. Refugees -- Germany -- Biography -- Periodicals. Ex-library copy with minimal markings. Small stain on top edge of book; otherwise, very good condition. (H-33-3)

Ghetto. Schauspiel in drei Akten. Mit Dokumenten und Beiträgen zur Zeitgeschichtlichen Auseinandersetzung sowie Zeichnungen von Johannes Grützke. Lieder und Texte aus dem Ghetto Wilna.

Mit Zeichnungen von Johannes Grützke.

SURVEY FOR PROPOSED VOCATIONAL SERVICES UNDER JEWISH AUSPICES IN ROCHESTER, N.Y.

Brass clasps. 34 pages. 28 cm. Holocaust-era imprint. An examination, undertaken at the request of the Jewish Welfare Board, into the vocational struggles of the Jewish community in Rochester, NY. , primarily for incoming Jewish refugees. Contents includes: Basic Problems Faced in Economic Adjustment Process; What Are Vocational Services? ; Attitudes of Youth; What Is Now Being Done; Recommendations. OCLC lists no copies. Cover is worn with some bumping at edges. Some internal pages are slightly darkened, but all text is clear. Very good condition. Rare (HOLO2-41-21) . Xx

Ik heb je zo lief. De menselijke en gelovige groei van Etty Hillesum

102pp., 21cm., gebroch., in de reeks "Geloofsgetuigen", goede staat, R97781

Vergeten stemmen van de Holocaust. Een unieke geschiedenis in de woorden van de mannen en vrouwen die het overleefden

430pp.geïllustreerd + kaart, 22cm., goede staat, G84632

OSVENTSIM, 1940-1945.

(FT) Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 93, [1] pages. Illus. 20 cm. In Russian. Second Edition. Title translates to English as, “Auschwitz, 1940-1945.” A brief history of the Auschwitz concentration camp. SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . Translation from Polish, “Oswiecim, 1940-1945” by Elena Dzedzinskaya. Wrappers slightly worn but still nice. Institutional stamp on title page. No copies listed on OCLC. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-93-27)

AUSCHWITZ (OSWIECIM) 1940-1945.

2nd Revised Edition. Paperback, 12mo, 104 pages, illustrations, 19 cm. In English. Subject (s) : Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . Includes bibliographical references. Very good condition. (HOLO2-98-12)

MENSKAE HETA: BARATS’BA SAVETSKIKH HABRAIAU-PARTYZANAU SUPRATS’ NATSYSTAU

Softbound. 8vo. 182, [4] pages. 22 cm. First Belorussian edition. Title translates as: “The Minsk ghetto; Soviet-Jewish partisans against the Nazis. ” In Belorussian, With four pages of black and white photographic plates. Hersh Smolar (1905–1993) , was a “Polish and Soviet Yiddish writer and editor. Born to a poor family in the town of Zambrów, Poland, Hersh Smolar (also rendered Smolyar) attended primary school until the age of 11, when he began working, and soon became involved in revolutionary activities. He was a leader of the local branch of the Jewish Socialist Youth Association from 1918 to 1920. During the 1920 Polish–Soviet War, Smolar belonged to a revolutionary committee that had formed in Zambrów when the Red Army had occupied the town. Smolar fled to Soviet Russia in 1921, initially living in Kiev. He moved to Moscow two years later, after being admitted to the Yiddish department at the Communist University for the Peoples of the West (known in Yiddish as Mayrevke) , one of the universities run by the Comintern. Forced to interrupt his studies the next year, Smolar was dispatched to Khar’kiv (then the Ukrainian capital) , where he was given the task of reinforcing the local Yiddish-speaking Communist cadre. He helped to edit the newspaper Yunge gvardye (Young Guard) , which targeted Yiddish-speaking youth. He returned to Moscow in 1926 and continued his studies at the Communist University, coediting its Yiddish journal Mayrevnik (Student of the Mayrevke) . Smolar served as a Comintern agent in Poland from 1928 to 1939; twice arrested, he spent six years in prison. After World War II began, he fled to Bialystok (then in Soviet-occupied territory) , where he gained prominence among refugee Polish Yiddish writers and as editor of the Communist newspaper Byalistoker shtern (Bialystok Star) . Smolar did not manage to evacuate when Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941. A leading member of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto, he became commissar of a partisan group operating in Belorussian forests. His wartime memoirs, Fun Minsker geto (From the Minsk Ghetto) , were published by Emes in Moscow in 1946. Smolar and his wife, Walentyna Najdus, subsequently returned to Poland, where he held key positions in the Jewish community as chair of the Jewish Cultural Alliance and editor of the Yiddish newspaper Folks-shtime. He published a collection of partisan stories, Yidn on gele lates (Jews without Yellow Patches; 1948) , and the play A posheter zelner (An Ordinary Soldier; 1952) . His Folks-shtime editorial ‘Undzer veytik un undzer treyst’ (Our Pain and Our Comfort; 4 April 1956) , which was reprinted all over the world, became the first semiofficial source of information on the liquidation of Soviet Yiddish cultural institutions and their leading personalities between 1948 and 1952. Indeed, this editorial triggered a radical decline in the number of Yiddish-language organizations that supported the Soviet Union. As a result of the 1968 anti-Jewish campaign and the involvement of his sons (Aleksander [1940– ] and Eugeniusz) in dissident student circles, Smolar acknowledged that his life in Poland had become untenable. He left for Israel in 1971.” (YIVO Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Belarus - Minsk. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Belarus - Minsk - Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance - Belarus - Minsk. Smolar, Hersh, (1905-1993) . Light shelf wear to covers, with lightly bumped lower back corner on cover. Very clean. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-92-2)

The Minsk Ghetto: Soviet-Jewish Partisans Against the Nazis.

21.5x14cm. 172 pages. Softcover. In good condition.

Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust

No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or creased with tiny nick to lower front edge. 352pp. A new history of the Holocaust in the Second World War in the words of over 100 of the men and women who survived.

100 000 Juden gerettet. Raoul Wallenberg und seine außergewöhnliche Mission in Budapest.

JODEN IN NOOD!

Original pictorial wrappers, starting. 8vo. 76, 8 pages; 22 cm. In Dutch. Title translates to “Jews in Crisis! ” Illustrated with 8-page series of photomontages. Dutch journalist and resistance fighter Adrian Aloijsius Felix (Lex) Althoff (1904-43) displays his avante garde photographic style in this publication that sought to bring attention to the poverty of the Jews of Poland. The cropped and stylized images here depict Jewish genre scenes in creative compositions. Interestingly, a photograph of the Grand Rabbi of Munkacs, Chaim Elazar Spira (the Minchas Elazar) appears on the final page. SUBJECT(S) : Polish Jews, Poverty, Photographs. OCLC lists 14 holdings worldwide. A copy sold at auction for over USD 600 (with commissions) in 2015. Old tape stains on margin of title page. Some dampstaining. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Library stamp. Very good condition. (SPEC-44-8)

Apocalypse of the 20th Century: Testimony of Marian Kolodziej, number 432.

23x24.5cm. 72 pages. Hardcover. Cover edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition.

KERATIKH YERUSHALAYIM

(FT) Hardcover, 1 volume, unpaged, 8vo, 24 cm. In Hebrew. Poetry. SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry. Slezak, Czestaw -- Translations into Hebrew. Polish and Hebrew; Hebrew text vocalized. Poems. In jacket, wear to edges. Very good condition. (Holo2-19-63)

Governor Frank's Dark Harvest. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.345.

Films of the Holocaust: An Annotated Filmography of Collections in Israel. [SERIES]: Garland Filmographies - Vol. 2.

225x150 mm. 272 pages. Gilt hardcover. In good condition.

Kiedys to namaluje... Operacowali Jadwiga Mateja, Antoni Siwek.

Illustrations and Drawings.

LUBLINER FARNIKHTUNGS=LAGER MAYDANEK

1st Yiddish edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers. 12mo. 95 pages, 14 cm. In Yiddish with some Russian. Title translates to “Lublin Extermination-Camp Majdanek.” Soviet war correspondent and poet Konstantin Simonov’s booklet on the atrocities of the Majdanek camp, published simultaneously in several languages, was only the second monograph published on the atrocities at Majdanek. Simonov (1915-1979) was a highly decorated poet, novelist, playright, and war correspondent whose works were widely known (Wikipedia, 2018) . A Polish-Soviet Special Criminal Court was established in Lublin in August 1944 in order to investigate the Nazi crimes in the Majdanek extermination camp, with Simonov covering the proceedings as the basis for this work. The Majdanek concentration camp was established on Heinrich Himmler's order and operated from October 1, 1941 until it was liberated by the Soviet Army on July 22, 1944. It is known to be the best preserved Nazi concentration camp of the Holocaust, as the Germans did not have enough time to destroy the evidences of their crimes. The Commission for investigating the German crimes was established in August 1944 and soon they published this booklet in several languages. Despite of the importance of this statement it must be mentioned that the Commission made many erroneous assumptions regarding the duration of the camp or number of people killed at Majdanek, probably because they were motivated rather by political and propaganda agenda than by a search for historical facts. The total number of the victims is still controversial, in this report 1.5 million victims of different nationalities were counted, however according to the latest researches there were 79, 000 victims, 59, 000 of whom were Jews. [Kranz, T. : Bookkeeping of Death and Prisoner Mortality at Majdanek. Pp. 81-110. In: Silberklang, D. (ed. ) : Yad Vashem Studies. Vol. 35: 1. Jerusalem, 2007.]. SUBJECTS: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 (OCLC: 145083668) . Light wear to wrappers and pages browning. Otherwise very good condition. (HOLO2-142-4-ALR)

TÁBOR SMRTI

Original illustrated paper wrappers with picture of break cremation oven. 12mo. 63 pages; 18cm. In Czech. Title translates to “Death Camp. ” Konstantin Simonov “was a Soviet author and a war poet. He was a playwright and a wartime correspondent, most famous for his poem Wait for Me...As a war correspondent, Simonov served in Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Germany, where he was present at the Battle of Berlin” (Wikipedia 2017) . Part of the series: Dokumenty reportaze [sv. 2]. SUBJECT(S) : Concentration camps, WWII, Atrocities. OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (Hoover Inst on War, Revolution & Peace, National Libr of the Czech Republic) . Some rubbing to cover wrappers. Minimal edgewear. Slight browning to pages. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Minimal staining. Very good condition. Rare. (HOLO2-134-42)