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1974224082Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to in black cloth. Text in English and Hebrew. Very Good in like dustjacket: very light shelfwear rubbing at the corners and spine ends of the jacket. No. 3 of 100 copies not signed on the limitation page but inscribed and signed in English by Bogen on the Hebrew title page. Please request a quote for international shipping. Yad Vashem hardcover
198133603Sidgwick & Jackson 1981. 8vo. First UK Edition with frontispiece map and plates; blue cloth gilt back a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE. Sidgwick & Jackson, hardcover
1945193462Jerusalem: Published by the Jewish Agency for Palestine / Search Bureau for Missing Relatives 1945. The search for the living First edition of the first major attempt to reunite Jewish families after the Holocaust listing 118000 survivors and their locations. Almost immediately after the war localized lists were published recording survivors from particular camps ghettos and countries. The Jewish Agency for Palestine established the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives to draw these efforts into a comprehensive register. The introduction notes it was published to "facilitate the re-establishment of contact between the remnants of Jewry in Europe and their relations in the Land of Israel and overseas. The Register contains the names of 60000 Jews of various countries saved from the camps and the ghettos who have been registered wherever they were were found following the liberation of Europe from Nazi servitude". It nevertheless cautions readers not to give up hope if a name is absent given the difficulty of compilation amid the chaos of postwar Europe. Lists also appeared in the weekly bulletin Lakarov Ulerahok while search requests were broadcast on Kol Yerushalayim in Jerusalem. Despite the suggestion of "forthcoming volumes" no further were produced. During its years of operation 1945 to 2002 the Bureau handled more than a million enquiries. The volumes are scarce on the market with most surviving copies held institutionally. They remain important reference works for those tracing relatives. 2 vols octavo. Original brown wrappers lettered in black. Contemporary Hebrew library stamps to title page of the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives; residue of removed labels to front covers. A little toned with minor wear remnants of the paper ties as issued to title pages wrappers of vol. I a little loose with some gatherings shaken. A good set of a fragile publication. unknown
199023490Ithaca NY: Center for International Studies Cornell University 1990. soft cover as issued. only slight signs of handling to exterior negligible impact. no real flaws or wear. no markings. no bumps tears creases. tight binding.; english text. shows no isbn.; vii-152pp. eight essays by various contributors. cornell studies in international affairs western societies program occasional papers no. 25. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Center for International Studies, Cornell University Paperback
19671824721967. Auschwitz memorialized - a record of "the first fully 'international' event" at the former camp A commemorative album for the opening of the memorial at Auschwitz on 16 April 1967 an important stage in its transition to an international memorial site. Situated at the western end of the railway lines that cross the camp the memorial remains a central part of the Auschwitz complex. The large granite memorial was designed by the Italian architects Andrea and Pietro Cascella. Approximately 200000 people attended the unveiling including Polish state officials the East German and Italian foreign ministers and prisoner organisations. The first two photographs show the memorial the third the crowd bound in by the barbed wire and the fourth the Polish prime minister Józef Cyrankiewicz laying a tribute. The remainder show the attendees eating lunch food stalls and chefs preparing the food. Given this the album was presumably produced for the organizers of the catering. "Abstract in form and vague in its message the monument and the events surrounding its unveiling in April 1967 certainly furthered the memorial site's growing international character and testified to the waning relevance of a traditional Polish-national commemorative idiom at Auschwitz. At the same time however the Birkenau monument failed to specify or acknowledge explicitly the suffering and death of Jews as Auschwitz and therefore took its place in the continuum of commemorative marginalization of the Shoah at the site" Huener pp. 145-6. The memorial does not mention the Jews specifically nor did Cyrankiewicz in his remarks at the event as he wished to continue to present the camp as a specifically Polish tragedy. Nonetheless the unveiling "drew tremendous attention from abroad and can therefore be understood as the first fully 'international' event held at the State Museum at Auschwitz. The highly publicized April ceremonies. reached the wider European public and through the presence of countless journalists the world" Huener p. 146. Oblong quarto 36 x 25 cm containing 28 silver gelatin prints ranging from 17 x 12 to 17 x 23 cm mounted on 21 leaves of thick black card string-tied within blue cloth covers. Fore edge of first leaf a little chipped otherwise binding and contents in excellent condition. Jonathan Huener Auschwitz Poland and the Politics of Commemoration 1945-1979 2003. hardcover
1947244572Sifriat Poalim - Workers' Book-Guild Hashamer Hatzair 1947. Hardcover. Good. 8vo in a library binding. Manuscript spine title and library number. There are two spots where a previous owner has applied white-out apparently onto a library rubber stamp. Binding tight and square moderate rubbing to the corners and spine ends text block a bit toned. The text is in Hebrew with a second title page in English. At this writing Jan. '21 we find no other copies offered online. Sifriat Poalim - Workers' Book-Guild (Hashamer Hatzair) hardcover
1992026551New York: Shengold Publishers Inc 1992. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by both AUTHORS directly on the front free endpaper. The first signatures are dated 3/13/92. Signed and dated 1/17/15 a second time by Irene in a very shaky hand. This is the 1992 Shengold first edition NOT the 1998 Schreiber reprint. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket crease to front inner flap. NO chips or tears. NOT price clipped $18.95. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT a remainder. Previous owner's name and brief gift note. Pages are otherwise crisp clean and unmarked. Photo illustrated. Holocaust memoirs of this Jewish couple - Carl lived as a Christian for 3 years before being discovered and sent away to concentration camp but escaped deportation to Auschwitz. Irene survived confinement in a ghetto by changing hiding places several times. They married in Poland at the end of the war and emigrated to America in 1948. Bound in the original blue cloth stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "This is the candid graphic and moving story of two Holocaust survivors. Their youth and their wits helped them to survive and put their ordeal to a constructive end.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by both AUTHORS. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 202pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Shengold Publishers, Inc Hardcover
197941929Warszawa Warsaw: Pan´stw. Wydawn. Naukowe 1979. 1st Edition. Original black printed portfolio 8vo. Portfolio of seven large folding maps on on 4 sheets of heavy paper 3 are double sided 1 is singled sided. Primarily black and white with some color. Text in Polish. <br> Title translates to “Nazi camps in Poland 1939 - 1945. An Encyclopaedic Reference Book: Maps." Collection of 7 maps each 84 cm x 60 cm 33 x 24 inches produced by Jan Laskowski at the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. The maps comprise Volume II of the work; Volume I is a heavily illustrated 676-page book of the same title which we offer separately. <br> The Seven maps all present are: <br> - Map 1 Single Sided: Hitlerowskie obozy na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945. “Nazi camps in Poland in the years 1939 - 1945â€. Showing: concentration and extermination camps sub-camps of concentration camps extermination centers POW camps more important sub-camps working divisions commandos and temporary POW camps penal labor camps major labor camps prisons transit camps & ghettos. <br> - Map 2A: Getta na ziemiach polskich w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej w latach 1939 - 1945 “Ghettos in Poland during the Nazi occupation in 1939 - 1945â€. <br> - Map 2B: Hitlerowskie obozy przejsciowe na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 “Nazi transit camps in Poland in 1939-1945â€. <br> - Map 3A: Hitlerowskie wiezienia i areszty na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 “Nazi prisons and arrests in Poland in 1939 - 1945â€. <br> - Map 3B: Hitlerowskie obozy pracy na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 “Nazi labor camps in Poland in the years 1939 - 1945â€. <br> - Map 4A: Hitlerowskie obozy jenieckie na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 “Nazi POW camps in Poland in 1939 - 1945â€. <br> - Map 4B: Hitlerowskie obozy koncentracyjne i osrodki zaglady na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939 - 1945 “Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers in Poland in 1939 - 1945â€. <br> Maps 2A & 2B have been described as a “Terrifying pair of maps showing the locations of German POW and internment camps in Poland during World War II highlighting the widespread locations of these establishments. In some parts of the map the information becomes so dense that three inset maps are shown. This map was designed by Jan Laskowski and printed in 1979 as part of a work on the Nazi extermination machine produced by PWN Warsaw a state-owned research-focused publishing house in Poland.<br> The map on the front is particularly interesting for its depiction of symbols used to classify internees in German camps. The uppermost of these depictions shows the combinations that can be made for different types of prisoners of different levels of importance. The armbands that would have been worn by these prisoners is shown as well as the prison uniforms. Other details are also shown. <br> The map lists hundreds of sites run by Nazi operators throughout the country. These include concentration camps death camps transitional camps and ghettos. The map is divided according to Poland's voivodeships with a key in the lower left. Names of cities too long to spell are also provided in the lower left. <br> This map was produced during a point in Poland's history during which it was actively revisiting the period during the Second World War. Leading social scientists devoted their time to trying to gather all the living as well as the recorded history of the events of the Holocaust and related atrocities before this information vanished. Leading these efforts particularly during the 1960s and 1970s was the Glówna Komisja Scigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu known as the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation. They were active in publishing maps both for domestic educational purposes and for international remembrance and diplomatic efforts regarding the Holocaust. Jan Laskowski was a leading cartographer who produced a number of maps in this field. <br> These maps were produced as part of a series of maps that purported to combine to form an atlas of all of Hitler's crimes in Poland. Many of the large wall maps produced during this period could only show a fraction of the crimes or only the atrocities committed in one region. Thus a series of maps was needed to show all the points necessary which this present work contributes to. <br> Polish Reinterpretations of the Holocaust: Studying the effects of German occupation in Poland is a delicate subject. While it is certain that Poland suffered at least as badly as any other European nation during the Second World War reinterpretations of the Holocaust in the country have also been used to satisfy nationalistic tendencies. It has become evident to Western observers in the last several years that there is a strong nationalist movement in Poland that seeks to place blame for the Holocaust solely on the shoulders of non-Polish actors a movement originally fostered under Soviet rule. This movement has gone so far as to limit freedom of speech criminalizing with a three-year sentence the suggestion that Poland or its citizens in any form participated in the murders committed by Nazis. As such the term ‘Polish concentration camps’ has been deemed unacceptable with the government-approved term being ‘concentration camps on Polish territory.’ <br> All lines of evidence show that this map 2A & 2B was produced using the most accurate and impartial historical sources. The language on the map is simple naming only ‘Hitler's Atrocities’ and there is no evidence of a clear anti-German bias. However it is impossible to separate this map one of the most important productions of the remembrance movement during this period from the social situation in which it was produced. Maps like these can easily be converted into propaganda instruments and today's Polish leaders most of whom grew up during Soviet occupation will have formed their understanding of the Holocaust through maps like these. <br> Soviet Censorship: While the content of the map appears to have been produced free from bias the map still had to go through Soviet censorship. Mentioning prisoner of war camps in which primarily Soviet troops were interned would have been a prerequisite condition upon which the publication of the map rested. Further the lack of mention of any Soviet killings or camps requires no explanation….The map unlike many later maps makes no differentiation between the populations who suffered at the various camps. This represents the Soviet agenda that all nations suffered fought and won equally which sought to limit divisions in this post-identity state†Ruderman 2022. <br> SUBJECTS: World War 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons German. -- Concentration camps -- Poland. Guerre mondiale 1939-1945 -- Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands. -- Camps d'internement -- Pologne. Obozy koncentracyjne -- Polska -- 1900-1945. OCLC: 830885973. <br> Light shelf wear to portfolio as expected. All maps in pristine condition with normal folds as issued. Very Good Condition. Complete and dramatic BR5 holo2-147-19-'cc. Warszawa (Warsaw): Pan´stw. Wydawn. Naukowe unknown
1990N3397Bad Ischl: Blickverlag 1990. Original Decorative Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. nd ca 1990 90pp. Many illustrations. SHIPPING WORLDWIDE INCLUDED. <br/> <br/> Blickverlag unknown
200024682Harper Collins 2000. 4to. First Edition with a frontispiece map and very numerous photographs facsimiles and maps throughout; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Harper Collins, hardcover
1947004306<p>Amsterdam: Amsterdamsche boek- En Courantmaatschappij N.V. 1947 128 pagina's. 120 illustraties / cartoons die op een luchtige / humoristische wijze een beeld geeft van het leven in het kamp Tjimahi bij Bandoeng waar in 1944 circa tienduizend gevangenen werden vastgehouden. Gebruikspoortjes. 1ste / 1st. Half Linnen Hard Cover. Used / Gebruikt. Illus. by Hartley M.G. A4 Oblong.</p> Amsterdamsche boek- En Courantmaatschappij N.V. hardcover
1988013389Baarn: Bosch & Keuning N.V. 1988 6de bijgewerkte druk. Boek met stofomslag in goede staat. 671 pagina's. Foto's documenten afbeeldingen. Extra shipping required. 6de / 6th. cardboard / karton - hardcover. good / goed/good / goed. A4 formaat. Bosch & Keuning N.V. hardcover
1988013895Baarn: Bosch & Keuning N.V. 1988 6de bijgewerkte druk. Boek met stofomslag in goede staat. 862 pagina's. Foto's documenten afbeeldingen. Extra shipping required. 6de / 6th. cardboard / karton - hardcover. good / goed/good / goed. A4 formaat. Bosch & Keuning N.V. hardcover
194547189Krakow: Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik" Czytelnik Publishing Cooperative 1945. First edition. Softcover. g to von-. Octavo 8 1/4 x 6". 93pp. 13 leaves of double sided photographic plates interleaved and unpaginated. Illustrated tan red and black wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Photographic b/w frontispiece. Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik."<br /> <br /> Possibly an earlier publication on lower quality paper compare to a slightly smaller publication by the "Library of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR" Biblioteczka Zwiazku Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR with the same text in different layout. That publication issued on higher quality paper and with twenty-eight photogravures three more than in this publication with twelve photographs appearing in both publications though in lesser quality here.<br /> <br /> Court Proceedings of the Polish-Soviet Special Criminal Court established in Lublin in August 1944 in order to investigate the crimes committed by the Germans in the Majdanek extermination camp. Despite the importance of this document it must be mentioned that the Commission made erroneous assumptions regarding the duration of the camp and the number of people killed at Majdanek. The Publishing cooperative "Czytelnik" was established behind Soviet front lines in 1944. It became the first post-World War II. publisher in Poland.<br /> <br /> The total numbers 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 79000 victims 59000 of whom were Jews See: 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.<br /> <br /> Illustrated with 25 pages of b/w photographic reproductions including a frontispiece on 13 double-sided interleaved plates altogether thirty-two photographs depicting members of the Commission Nazi guards now prisoners who used to run the camp and survivors alike testifying before the Commission. Also includes views of the actual concentration camp piles of suitcases Zyklon B poison gas pellets gas chambers ovens and survivors amid corpses.<br /> <br /> Wrappers with some chipping rubbing creasing and/or closed tears to extremities. Small stain on the back cover and side edge of book block. Verso of frontispiece with a vertical crease. Some pages throughout with some light age toning or small water spots. Overall text and images clear and vibrant. Wrappers in good interior in very good- condition overall. One of two editions of this work published in Moscow and Krakow in 1945. It is not certain which was released first. Each has different wrappers size pagination and publishers. Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik" (Czytelnik Publishing Cooperative) unknown
1945190283London: Associated Newspapers Ltd. 1945. First edition first impression rarely encountered in the jacket of one of the earliest full expositions of the Holocaust aimed at a general audience published by Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. The book gathers first-hand accounts and photographs from the liberation of the Nazi camps in the West showing corpses and surviving inmates as well as captured camp operatives. Quarto. Original red cloth front cover lettered and with barbed wire design in black. With the dust jacket illustrated with photograph of Holocaust victims. Light bumping and rubbing at extremities jacket chipped and creased reinforced with tape on verso protective acetate sleeve taped directly to jacket; a very good copy in sound jacket. hardcover
199410479Los Angeles: Holocaust Remembrance Committee Michael Diller High School 1994. Hardcover. Fine/very good . Tall quarto black paper over boards167 pages illustrations maps portraits. -- Inscribed & signed by Arnold Lorber one of the twelve survivors on the first free endpaper. -- Unable to locate any hardbound copies of this book. Scarce in hardbound. Contents: stories of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust I'm not a hero merely a survivor! / Ernest Braunstein -- A child in and of the Holocaust / Ralph Codikow -- Courage personified / Renee Firestone -- Mazel & persistence / Jona Goldrich -- Assured by mother she would survive and she did / Zelda Grodsenski Gordon -- Surviving the "mine field" / Fred Kort -- Never give up! / Arnold Lorber -- A hero saved by his mother's wisdom and love / Paul Mandel -- Mila Leopold and Schindler / Leopold Pfefferberg Page -- Saga of the Pasternak Family / Alfred Pasternak -- "We must never never forget" / Maurice Pechman -- The messenger of life / Andrew Stevens. Holocaust Remembrance Committee, Michael Diller High School hardcover
1998013348Wickrathberg: Verein für Heimat- und Denkmalpflege Wickrathberg 1998 388 pages. Photographs documents maps tables. German language / Deutsche Sprache / Duitstalig. Prisoner of War camp Wickrathberg 1945 POW TE A-9 for captured German soldiers from March 1945 till September 1945. 1ste / 1st. Cardboard / Karton. Good / Goed. A4 Oblong. Verein für Heimat- und Denkmalpflege Wickrathberg hardcover
1960190277Krakow: International Auschwitz Committee 1960s. First edition first printing very scarce and even more so in the dust jacket. Offered "in memory of those murdered a warning to those living" the book charts the history of Auschwitz from its founding to its liberation and the trial of camp operators. It is extensively and graphically illustrated with photographs. The text is in English French and German throughout. The publishers the International Auschwitz Committee was founded by survivors in 1952 to preserve the memory of the camp counter anti-Semitism and maintain links between former inmates between nations and across the Iron Curtain. Oblong quarto. Original grey cloth front cover lettered in blind. With dust jacket. Jacket a little rubbed and chipped at extremities without price as issued; a fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
1947298232New York: Machmadim Art Editions 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio in gray cloth with original brown paper dustjacket. Book of fantastic charcoal illustrations with accompanying Yiddish melodies on staves Machmadim Art Editions hardcover
1989017918New York: Grove Weidenfeld 1989. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Simon Wiesenthal on the front free endpaper. A beautiful copy of the First U.S. printing. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped $22.50. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Bright shiny clean square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First U.S. printing 1989 with "First American edition" so stated and complete number row 10 987654321 on the copyright page. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Translated from the German by Ewald Osers. Laid in is a copy of Wiesenthal's 2005 obituary. From the publisher: "Since the end of World War II Wiesenthal has dedicated his life to bringing Nazis to justice. In this book he describes his activities the men such as Eichmann and Mengele he has pursued the Nazi escape organization Odessa but also some of the heroism that the horrors produced. The book asks questions about the function of punishment and the possibility of rehabilitation in such extreme cases of criminality. He shows that many of the most sadistic persecutors of the Nazi regime found it all too easy to merge into normal society and assume a cloak of decency. Wiesenthal's aim has been to expose to the fullest possible extent the hypocritical sham of this normalization which he believes incubates the anti-semitism of which the Nazi regime was the most barbaric manifestation." Index. Bound in the original brown boards with a brown cloth spine stamped in shiny copper. Complete with dust jacket. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Simon Wiesenthal. First American edition so stated. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xi 372pp. 16 pages of photos. Grove Weidenfeld Hardcover
1971N635Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971. Original Cloth with d/j. Very Good. 8vo. 258411pp. Hrsg. vom Stadtarchiv Mannheim. German text. A very good and clean copy in the original box. <br/> <br/> Kohlhammer hardcover
197922217NY: Ark House 1979. cloth hardcover in dust jacket. dj has edge-chip around top of spine some minor wear in small spots. rubbing to dj flap. else light use.no other flaws. no writing or markings. no bumps. strong binding.; 229pp. ixpp. preliminaries. section of b/w photos. map endpapers. document and reference sections.; one of the few survivor memoirs of the ghetto for german and austrian jews in riga latvia which existed during the german occupation. well written and historically accurate an important valuable contribution to one of the lesser known chapters of the holocaust. gertrude schneider went on to write and publish several other books on the holocaust. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ark House Hardcover
1961017862New York: The William-Frederick Press 1961. INSCRIBED / SIGNED and dated December 7 1962 by the AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. The jacket is sunned at the spine and edges lightly frayed/rubbed at its corners and spine ends. Not price clipped $3.50. The book itself is bright clean square and tight with sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1961 First Edition. Illustrated with 4 pages of photos. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black cloth. Complete with dust jacket. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. 8vo. vi 97pp. 4 pages of photos. The William-Frederick Press Hardcover
194743409New York The Organization No Date 1947. 1st edition. Double-sided English-Yiddish leaflet 2 pages. The Yiddish header translates roughly as "An Announcement To the Jewish Public"<br> Bilingual American Flyer condemning the Joint the American Joint Distribution Committee AJDC for not doing more to help the Jewish DPs and its "hiding" behind the German police when DP's demonstrated for more action on DP resettlement.<br> The issuing organization the United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution/Farband fun Geveyzene Yidishe Katsetler un Partizaner was the first survivor network founded in the US. Their Yiddish name translates as "The Association of Former Jewish Concentration Camp Inmates and Partisans." The word "Katsetler" in their name is a contraction of "kontsentratsyonslager-er" using the letters K and Z "ka" and "tset" and thus short for "kontsetratsyonslager" a concentration camp inmate or survivor sometimes also noted as a "katsetnik." <br> <br> The flyer announces:<br> <br> "Jewish blood was again shed on German soil! German police fought with remaining victims of Nazism. But this time the sad event was instigated by the prominent Jewish organization-The Joint Distribution Committee.<br> <br> What happened<br> <br> There remains today in Camp Foehrenwald near Munich about two thousand helpless forlorn and ill D.P's who miraculously escaped the extermination furnaces in nazi-occupied Poland and Hitler-Germany. Hungry desperate destitute men women and children the 'forgotten' Jews have been knocking at the doors of the democratic countries for a haven and refuge and a home they can call their own.<br> <br> With this goal in mind they demand immediate help from the Joint while in camp and help to establish themselves in their eventual homes in the countries that have offered refuge. But the Joint turned a 'deaf ear' toward their pleas.<br> <br> And when these disillusioned D.P.'s demonstrated before the offices of the Joint in Munich the German police in a previously planned attack critically wounded whipped and battered off the demonstrators.<br> <br> The Joint in Munich with the approval of the Joint in Paris asked the police to protect them against the Jewish D.P. demonstrators.<br> <br> We the survivors of Nazi-Germany now living in the United States cannot forget the extreme torments and the inferno of the nazi-torture; we who suffered with many victims now in Foch- renwald are horror-stricken and dismayed and our hearts cry out against the Joint for the brutality toward our helpless brethern in misfortune.<br> <br> We express our deep-felt sympathy toward our brothers in Foehrenwald.<br> <br> demand that the Joint representatives responsible for these brutal attacks on the D.P.'s by the German police be punished.<br> <br> In the name of humanity we beseech the Jews in the United States to let their voices be heard help these sick tragic and frustrated victims to find homes and a life of human dignity again" From the English side of the flyer.<br> <br> <br> After World War II Munich served as a major center for Jewish Holocaust survivors the "Sh'erit ha-Pletah" who were living in DP camps. The "Joint" was the primary welfare organization providing aid clothing and food to these camps. While the Joint was a vital lifeline its Munich headquarters at Siebertstrasse 3 sometimes became the focal point for frustration regarding the pace of aid distribution or more frequently the slow pace of emigration to Palestine Aliyah and broader often frustrating postwar conditions.<br> Following the 1947 Exodus ship incident where Jewish refugees were returned to Germany by the British Jewish DPs felt trapped and staged intense demonstrations including protests at the offices of international organizations like the Joint to highlight their despair.<br> These demonstrations were part of a broader effort by survivors to assert their agency and demand rights during their time in Munich 1945-1951. For more on tensions between Munich's Jewish DPs and the Joint see www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de/en/exhibitions/munich-displaced-online/moehlstrasse. <br> <br> Scholar David Slucki notes about the publishers of this leaflet that "Within months of arriving in the United States in 1946 Jewish Holocaust survivors began to organize themselves to help with the process of resettlement. The small band of socialists who established the Farband fun Geveyzene Yidishe Katsetler un Partizaner United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution this group initiated a dual process of identity formation and memorialization of the Holocaust. <br> The first survivor network founded in the United States the Katsetler Farband this group developed a memorial culture that included commemorations and publications replete with its own rituals and calendar. Moreover the organization was part of a broader process of defining what experiences constituted the Holocaust and who was to be considered a survivor. Ultimately they were among a host of survivor networks in the United States to lay the foundation for Holocaust memorialization" Slucki D. 2017. A Community of Suffering: Jewish Holocaust Survivor Networks in Postwar America. Jewish Social Studies 222 116-145. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/649094<br> <br> We could locate no copies in OCLC-Worldcat Archive Grid nor using a google search. <br> <br> Touch of edgewear one diagonal fold paper generally bright and strong about Very Good- Condition. Holo2-163-28A. New York, The Organization, No Date unknown
1994317188Nan A. Talese September 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by both authors along with a a personal inscription on the title page. Binding is fine. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. Stated first edition. Trivial shelving wear. DJ is now protected by a mylar cover. Nan A. Talese hardcover
