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1980221631980. Solidarity movement ephemera archive. 1980s-1989. This archive documents opposition organizing and political communication in eastern Poland during the final phase of Communist rule with particular emphasis on labor unrest student activism and the 1989 electoral campaign that led to partial democratic reform. The material records how Solidarność operated through underground print culture and regional coordination including strike reporting candidate promotion and direct appeals to voters. It provides primary evidence of political messaging grassroots mobilization and the emergence of open electoral discourse in the months preceding the June 1989 elections.<br /> <br /> Archive of over 30 pieces of printed ephemera and underground publications produced in the Lublin and Zamość regions primarily in Polish in varying formats including newspapers broadsheets flyers tickets brochures and a pennant. Key items include Biuletyn Solidarność Nos. 2 and 3 15 and 22 May 1989 issued by the Regional Committee for Lublin-Zamość containing articles such as "Protest płacowy na uczelniach lubelskich" documenting wage protests at Lublin universities and an interview with candidate Adam Kozaczyński titled "Mogę pracować dla ludzi i dla kraju." Additional coverage includes "Wyborcy o kandydatach" presenting voter responses to candidates. Student activism appears in Gazeta Strajkowa Lublin Nr. 3 a hectograph-printed publication of the Independent Students' Association NZS criticizing state education policy with statements including "Nie narusza w żadnym stopniu postulatów studentów" and "Odradza nadal Ministerstwo Oświaty i Wychowania." A 13 May 1989 issue of Przegląd Wiadomości Agencyjnych features a mining strike in Lubin under the headline "STRAJK" accompanied by an image of workers holding a protest banner. Election materials include flyers and cards bearing the slogan "Twoja Szansa Solidarność: Wybory 1989" promoting candidates such as Tadeusz Mańka Adam Stanowski and Henryk Janusz Stępniak along with a facsimile-signed letter from Lech Wałęsa dated May 1989 urging coordinated political participation.<br /> <br /> These materials were produced during the rapid political transformation of 1989 when negotiations between the Communist government and opposition groups led to partially free elections and the eventual formation of a non-Communist government. Underground and semi-legal print media played a central role in disseminating information coordinating protest and legitimizing opposition candidates particularly in regional centers such as Lublin. Light toning and minor wear consistent with ephemeral use; overall very good. A concentrated archive of Solidarity print culture preserving the language organization and visual strategies of political mobilization at the end of Communist rule in Poland. unknown
194243347Liberty Publications London 1942. Paperback. 1st edition. Original dramatically illustrated paper wrappers. 12mo 14 pages. Photographic illustrations. <br> With heart-breaking introduction: "It IS True" by the London-based Bundist leader Szmul Zygielbojm who within eight months of this publication committed suicide At the time of his suicide he stated: "By my death I wish to give expression to my most profound protest against the inaction in which the world watches and permits the destruction of the Jewish peopleâ€.<br> Zygielbojm was a “Member of the Polish National Council in London Member of the T.U.C. in Poland and of the Executive of the Jewish Socialist Party “Bund†in Poland.†<br> This dramatic publiction details the horrors against Jews specifically the Polish Jews using information from two documemts from the Polish government. Includes photographs of “a mass grave of massacred Jews in Central Poland†a man tallying the dead bodies and a man holding a starving baby. A copy sold for over USD 800 with commissions at auction in 2013. <br> SUBJECTS: Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 -- Poland. World War 1939-1945 – Jews. Atrocities. Occupation. <br> OCLC: 22173530. <br> Very Good Condition. HOLO2-159-16-XX-ABLPIII-EBB-'ff. Liberty Publications, London paperback
194595822Lodz: Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyvzna w Polsce 1945. 1st edition. Good. oblong quarto. original chipped boards 38 104 32pp. b/w plates An amazing document drawn largely from "souvenir" photos taken by German soldiers and published immediately after the end of the war. Dual text POLISH RUSSIAN ENGLISH FRENCH & HEBREW. Heavy use inc. loose pages o/w a complete copy of a very scarce not to say rare volume suitable for restoration & rebinding Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyvzna w Polsce hardcover
19131011PARIS. J. LEROY ET CIE, EDITEURS. 1913. GRAND ET FORT IN-4 (30 X 39 X 5,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (8) + III + (1) + 314 ET (2) PAGES, RELIURE D’EPOQUE 1/2 CHAGRIN VERT, DOS A CINQ NERFS, TITRE DORE, COUVERTURE ET DOS CONSERVES. SPLENDIDE OUVRAGE ILLUSTRE DE 46/48 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE D'UNIFORMES EN COULEURS, DE 10 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE, DONT 6 DE PORTRAITS MULTIPLES ET 4 D’ETENDARDS ET FANIONS (2 EN COULEURS) ET DE 24 VIGNETTES DANS LE TEXTE. EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE, LIMITE A 1000 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, 300 SUR ARCHES ET 700 SUR ALFA, CELUI-CI SUR ALFA, NON JUSTIFIE. QUELQUES ROUSSEURS, SINON BEL EXEMPLAIRE. IL MANQUE 2 PLANCHES PAGES 88 (16° REGIMENT DE LANCIERS. COMPAGNIE D’ELITE) ET 152 (14° REGIMENT DE CUIRASSIERS). ON JOINT PAR CONTRE 2 PLANCHES DE CHELMINSKI PROVENANT DE L’OUVRAGE CONSACRE A LA GARDE IMPERIALE PAR LOUIS FALLOU EN 1901 : OFFICIERS DU 1° REGIMENT DE LANCIERS POLONAIS ET TARTARE LITUANIEN). PRIX ETABLI EN FONCTION DES MANQUES SIGNALES.
191618541916 Couverture rigide Paris, L'Art et les Artistes, 1916, 1917. 5 numéros spéciaux de la revue regroupés dans un volume in-4 (30 x 21,5 cm), reliure demi-chagrin signée Louis Marchand, dos à 5 nerfs orné de caissons dorés, papier à la cuve aux plats et contreplats, tranche supérieure dorée, dos insolé avec quelques frottements. Les 5 numéros grand luxe du volume sont numérotés sur papier de la Manufacture Impériale du Japon (tirage limité entre 25 et 55 exemplaires selon les numéros). LA POLOGNE IMMORTELLE, 80 pages, 2 états sur Japon d'un bois original en deux tons de Jacques Beltrand dont un avant la lettre, représentant le poète Adam Mickiewicz, textes notamment de maurice Maeterlinck, 154 illustrations. LA LORRAINE AFFRANCHIE, 66 pages, 2 états sur Japon d'un dessin original de Bernard Naudin dont un avant la lettre, "L'Oriflamme", texte de Maurice Barrès, 128 illustrations. LILLE SOUS LE JOUG ALLEMAND, 48 pages, 2 états sur Japon d'un croquis original de Paul Renouard dont un avant la lettre, représentant des troupes en marche, textes de Robert Hénard, 48 illustrations. ROUMANIE, 68 pages, 2 états sur Japon d'un dessin original de Jacques Beltrand dont un avant la lettre, "portrait de la Reine Marie en paysanne roumaine", texte notamment de Marie Ionesco, 104 illustrations. L'ART ASSASSINÉ, 48 pages, 2 états sur Japon d'un bois original de Eugène Dété dont un avant la lettre, "La tête du Roi David", texte de Camille Mauclair, 58 illustrations. Fondée en 1905 par Armand Dayot, alors Inspecteur général des Beaux-Arts, la revue L'Art et les Artistes devient pendant la Grande guerre un organe de résistance intellectuelle et de témoignage, invitant auteurs et illustrateurs à s'exprimer sur le conflit en cours. Provenance : Adolphe Thalasso, proche collaborateur de la revue, écrivain et critique d'Art né à Constantinople, figure orientaliste à Paris dans le monde littéraire. Bel état du texte et des planches, bon exemplaire sur grand papier.
1918184801918. American Red Cross Poland photo album Warsaw Operations 1918-1920 documents U.S. humanitarian operations in Eastern Europe following World War I recording relief work conducted during the Polish-Soviet War and the broader reconstruction of Polish civil and medical infrastructure. The images identify personnel locations and operational units associated with American Red Cross efforts as they provided transport medical care and material aid in a region destabilized by the collapse of empires and the reestablishment of an independent Polish state in 1918. A caption referencing "the Polish-Russian front ARC 1920 Poland" situates the album within active conflict conditions while additional annotations tied to supply trains and field units establish the material as a contemporaneous record of organized international relief.<br /> <br /> Photo album measuring approximately 8 x 11.5 inches with 34 photographs mounted across 11 leaves each image approximately 3 x 5 inches. The photographs depict American Red Cross personnel aboard trains and railway platforms including a documented ARC supply train as well as automobile units in transit or undergoing roadside repair captioned "American Red Cross cars 1918 Poland." Several images include handwritten annotations identifying subjects locations and squadron designations. One photograph shows a group of workers assembled on a makeshift structure with a caption identifying "Van Wert in charge of one of the relief trains" indicating named personnel connected to field operations.<br /> <br /> Produced during the initial phase of internationally coordinated humanitarian intervention in postwar Poland the album aligns with the 1919 recognition of the Polish Red Cross by the International Committee of the Red Cross which facilitated the transfer of hospitals medical trains and logistical infrastructure into Polish administration. The photographs document the integration of American aid within these systems including rail-based medical transport and mobile support units critical to relief distribution in contested and newly reorganized territories. Some photographs detached from leaves and a tear to the front cover; images and structure otherwise intact. Overall very good condition. unknown
1943442j1479New York: Poland Fights - Polish Labor Group. Fair with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Paperback. "As German boots marched and German tanks rumbled through the mined streets of Warsaw the workers buried their remaining arms drew closer to one another and silently disappeared to continue the fight with means other than rifles and bullets. Underground Poland was born! And this is its story." - page 2. Topics include: How a Pole Must Behave Toward Germans; List of 15 Strictly Forbidden Activities; Underground Poetry; Invisible Sabotage; Roads To Death; 1.5 Million Slave Laborers; Boycott; Recalcitrant Peasants; Avengers and Guerrillas; The Ghetto Strikes Back; Collective Responsibility of Monuments; Wawer Massacre; Hide It From The Germans!; Our Future. Stapled booklet with 44 glossy unnumbered pages in illustrated covers. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of photos document facsimiles illustrations and a map. No indication of any prior printings. Former library copy with related markings to front and back of front cover. Bound by a single staple which is pulling from the tender illustrated covers. One-inch opening at bottom of coverfold. A worthy example of this highly informative WWII-era artifact. Wiener Library Catalogue Series 7 1004. 8.5" x 5.5"; Front Cover; 8vo . Poland Fights - Polish Labor Group paperback
1933173338New York: Edgar Weyhe 1933. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Paperback. VG with minor coiling to orange dustjacket covers otherwise almost like new except for some separation of spine at the very top. Orange printed dustjacket surrounding a white printed glued wrap-around stiff cover. 54 pp. Two color plates including a signed in pencil lithograph portrait of Shore by Jean Charlot 18 bw photographic reproductions after photographs of the artist's work by Edward Weston 5 smaller bw reproductions which may be lithographs at the head of the text articles. The first color plate may also be a color lithograph but it is not signed. One of Armitage's rarest works. A monograph on the art and career of California modernist painter Henrietta Shore.The portrait by Charlot is signed by the artist but hideous. Includes an article by Edward Weston who also photographed the original artworks by Shore. Includes articles by Merle Armitage Edward Weston and an Appraisal by Reginald Poland. Very rare. Forward colophon reads "Two hundred numbered copies of this book designed by Merle Armitage have been printed . by the Will A. Kistler Company . It is set in twelve point Rockwell type and the entire contents of the book is printed by the Artochrome Process. The photographs of the paintings pastels crayons and drawings in this book were made from the originals by Edward Weston. This is copy no. blank"--Colophon./ Descriptive letterpress on versos facing the plates." Edgar Weyhe paperback
1913585PARIS. J. LEROY ET CIE, EDITEURS. 1913. GRAND ET FORT IN-4 (30 X 39,5 X 6,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (8) + III + (1) + 314 ET (2) PAGES, RELIURE D’EPOQUE 1/2 CHAGRIN ROUGE, DOS A QUATRE NERFS, TITRE DORE, DOUBLE COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE D’UNE VIGNETTE AVEC TITRE IMPRIME EN NOIR, ET DOS CONSERVES. SPLENDIDE OUVRAGE ILLUSTRE DE 48 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE D'UNIFORMES EN COULEURS, DE 10 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE, DONT 6 DE PORTRAITS MULTIPLES ET 4 D’ETENDARDS ET FANIONS (2 EN COULEURS) ET DE 24 VIGNETTES DANS LE TEXTE. EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE, LIMITE A 1000 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, 300 SUR ARCHES ET 700 SUR ALFA. UN DES 700 SUR ALFA, CELUI-CI PORTANT LE NUMERO 432. QUELQUES ROUSSEURS EPARSES SANS GRAVITE, SINON TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
19133004PARIS. J. LEROY ET CIE, EDITEURS. 1913. GRAND ET FORT IN-4 BROCHE (28,5 X 38,5 X 5,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (8) + III + (1) + 314 ET (2) PAGES, COUVERTURE GRISE REMPLIEE ILLUSTREE D’UNE VIGNETTE EN NOIR, TITRE IMPRIME EN NOIR. SPLENDIDE OUVRAGE ILLUSTRE DE 48 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE D'UNIFORMES EN COULEURS, DE 10 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE, DONT 6 DE PORTRAITS MULTIPLES ET 4 D’ETENDARDS ET FANIONS (2 EN COULEURS) ET DE 24 VIGNETTES DANS LE TEXTE. EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE, LIMITE A 1000 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, 300 SUR ARCHES ET 700 SUR ALFA, CELUI-CI SUR ALFA, PORTANT LE NUMERO 319. ERREUR DE FACONNAGE DE L’OUVRAGE AU MOMENT DE SA PARUTION, NEAMMOINS BIEN COMPLET ET COLLATIONNE, AVEC DES PAGES SUPPLEMENTAIRES (46-49, 47-52, 45-50 ET 51-48), UN CAHIER VOLANT A REFIXER (PAGES 45-52). QUELQUES TRACES D’HUMIDITE ANCIENNE, PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS GRAVITE, COMME SOUVENT COMPTE-TENU DU POIDS DU VOLUME, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE. ON JOINT UN BULLETIN DE COMMANDE ET UN BULLETIN DE SOUSCRIPTION AVEC UNE PLANCHE SPECIMEN SUPPLEMENTAIRE.
19133371PARIS. J. LEROY ET CIE, EDITEURS. 1913. GRAND ET FORT IN-4 BROCHE (28,5 X 38,5 X 5,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (8) + III + (1) + 314 ET (2) PAGES, COUVERTURE GRISE REMPLIEE ILLUSTREE D’UNE VIGNETTE EN NOIR, TITRE IMPRIME EN NOIR. SPLENDIDE OUVRAGE ILLUSTRE DE 48 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE D'UNIFORMES EN COULEURS, DE 10 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE, DONT 6 DE PORTRAITS MULTIPLES ET 4 D’ETENDARDS ET FANIONS (2 EN COULEURS) ET DE 24 VIGNETTES DANS LE TEXTE. EDITION ORIGINALE ET PREMIER TIRAGE, LIMITE A 1000 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, 300 SUR ARCHES ET 700 SUR ALFA, CELUI-CI SUR ARCHES, NON JUSTIFIE. QUELQUES ROUSSEURS, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE. .
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
1920145501920 br. format 30 x 24 cm, Paris s.d. (ca. 1920)
1931223BBZürich, Leipzig, Orell Füssli Verlag, 1931. 8°. 8 S., (english), 7 S. (hebrew). Mit 65 Abb. nach Photos von M. Vorobeichic. Illustr. Orig.-Halbleinenband (berieben und bestossen). = "Schaubücher", Bd. 27.
1931223BBZürich, Leipzig, Orell Füssli Verlag, 1931. 8°. 8 S., (english), 7 S. (hebrew). Mit 65 Abb. nach Photos von M. Vorobeichic. Illustr. Orig.-Halbleinenband + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 223BB (berieben und bestossen). = "Schaubücher", Bd. 27.
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
19501709801950. POLAND. L'exécution du plan triennial: de reconstruction économique en Pologne. 62 pp. illustrated throughout with isotype diagrams charts and photographs. Small oblong folio 210 x 287 mm. bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Warszawa: n.p. 1950. A stunning example of avant-garde book design with extremely imaginative use of isotypes as is often the case in the service of boring material. Wrappers sightly soiled otherwise fine. Rare with OCLC listing just International Labor Office and Northwestern in the U.S. and copies in Europe unknown
1939187411939. Polish Jewish family photographs created between 1934 and 1939 documenting Jewish life in Poland during the final years before the outbreak of World War II and the destruction of much of Eastern European Jewry. The photographs record members of a Polish Jewish family including men women and children during a period when Jewish communities remained deeply rooted throughout Poland but faced increasing political hostility and anti-Semitic agitation across Central Europe. Poland contained one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe during the inter war period with many families living in small Jewish communities often referred to as shutters as well as in larger towns and cities. The images capture everyday family and community life immediately before the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 a moment that would fundamentally transform the lives of Jewish communities across the region.<br /> <br /> Photo archive consisting of 21 silver gelatin photographs mounted in a photograph album together with 10 additional loose photographs. Images measure approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches and depict family members in individual portraits group gatherings and scenes of school children assembled in large smiling groups. Several photographs carry handwritten inscriptions on the verso written in Polish and possibly Yiddish indicating personal exchanges between family members or relatives. Among the photographs are two portraits of a Polish Jewish man wearing Polish Army uniform one dated 1939 documenting Jewish participation in the Polish armed forces in the months immediately preceding the outbreak of war. The album pages preserve images of family gatherings and posed portraits reflecting domestic and social life within a Polish Jewish household during the final years of the inter war period.<br /> <br /> The photographs were created during a period of growing political instability in Europe that culminated in the German invasion of Poland on September 1 1939. That invasion followed the collapse of the German Polish non aggression agreement and the signing of the German Soviet pact that divided Poland between the two powers. German forces entered Poland with a large mechanized army supported by aircraft and armored divisions overwhelming the Polish military within weeks despite organized resistance. Jewish citizens served in the Polish armed forces and were present throughout the country's military and civilian life before the war. Album measuring approximately 15 x 11 inches containing 21 mounted photographs and accompanied by 10 loose photographs. Minor edge wear present with occasional cracks to several prints that do not affect the clarity of the images. Many photographs bear inscriptions and dates on the verso. Overall condition very good. unknown
1944187231944. Polish Armed Forces soldiers serving with Allied forces during World War II documented in a group of photographs dating from 1945 to 1946 preserving visual evidence of the Polish II Corps and its role in the Italian Campaign. The Polish II Corps formed from Polish soldiers who had been released from Soviet imprisonment after the German invasion of the Soviet Union and were reorganized under Allied command receiving training in the Middle East before deployment to the Mediterranean theater. These troops participated in some of the most difficult operations of the Italian Campaign including the assault on German defensive positions at Monte Cassino in 1944 one of the decisive engagements that opened the road to Rome for Allied forces. The photographs record the presence of Polish soldiers in Italy during the final stages of the war and in the immediate aftermath of Allied victory.<br /> <br /> Photo archive consisting of 34 black and white silver gelatin photographs depicting members of the Polish Armed Forces serving with Allied units in Italy and surrounding regions during and immediately after the war. The photographs include individual portraits and group images of soldiers in uniform along with scenes of soldiers posed in front of prominent Roman landmarks such as St. Peter's Basilica the Colosseum and the Giuseppe Garibaldi monument. Several photographs show large groups of soldiers assembled near military vehicles and supply trucks while others depict soldiers aboard ships likely involved in transport within the Mediterranean theater. Many photographs carry inscriptions on the verso written in Polish including references to "Włochy" the Polish word for Italy confirming the location of the photographs. Some images show soldiers standing among palm trees suggesting photographs taken during the earlier phase of the corps' movement through the Middle East before deployment to Italy.<br /> <br /> By the end of the war the Polish forces serving alongside Allied armies had expanded significantly and the soldiers photographed here belonged to a formation that grew to more than 100000 personnel. After the war many Polish soldiers faced uncertain futures as their homeland fell within the Soviet sphere of influence following the war's conclusion. Photographs documenting Polish soldiers in the Italian theater therefore preserve visual records of a military force composed largely of displaced individuals who continued fighting under Allied command despite the political upheaval affecting their country. Thirty four silver gelatin photographs measuring approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches to 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Minor edge wear present; overall condition very good. unknown
1942SZEPEBKS007359IRussia - S.S.S.R. : Poloni in Russia S.S.S.R. 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. POLISH CATHOLIC IMPRINT IN THE SOVIET UNION - MISSAL FOR POLISH SOLDIERS IN RUSSIA DURING WORLD WAR II Typographia Exercitus Poloni in Russia S.S.S.R. - No date1942. - Small 8vo 20x13.5 cm. - 64 pp. - Royal blue hardback fine. - A Roman Catholic missal for chaplains of the Polish Army in Russia during World War II. - On the title- page a tipped-in printed slip with the text: "Ad usum Capellanorum Militum in Russia" On verso of front free endpaper: "Concordat cum originali / Jangi-July3 Maii 1942 / Vlodimirus Cienski / Decanus Militaris Polonorum in Russia. / Imprimatur Joseph Gawlina Episcopus / 11.VII 1942 g.". - In Latin and Polish. - WorldCat locates 2 copies only Buffalo History Museum and NUVAT Union Catalog of Polish Research Libraries. - No other book listed in WorldCat by this publisher. <br/> <br/> Poloni in Russia (S.S.S.R.) hardcover
1933173338New York: Edgar Weyhe 1933. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Paperback. VG with minor coiling to orange dustjacket covers otherwise almost like new except for some separation of spine at the very top. Orange printed dustjacket surrounding a white printed glued wrap-around stiff cover. 54 pp. Two color plates including a signed in pencil lithograph portrait of Shore by Jean Charlot 18 bw photographic reproductions after photographs of the artist's work by Edward Weston 5 smaller bw reproductions which may be lithographs at the head of the text articles. The first color plate may also be a color lithograph but it is not signed. One of Armitage's rarest works. A monograph on the art and career of California modernist painter Henrietta Shore.The portrait by Charlot is signed by the artist. Includes an article by Edward Weston who also photographed the original artworks by Shore. Includes articles by Merle Armitage Edward Weston and an Appraisal by Reginald Poland. Very rare. Forward colophon reads "Two hundred numbered copies of this book designed by Merle Armitage have been printed . by the Will A. Kistler Company . It is set in twelve point Rockwell type and the entire contents of the book is printed by the Artochrome Process. The photographs of the paintings pastels crayons and drawings in this book were made from the originals by Edward Weston. This is copy no. blank"--Colophon./ Descriptive letterpress on versos facing the plates." Edgar Weyhe paperback books
1945517This is a set which belonged to Janusz Gluchowski, a high-ranking Polish military officer at the time of the WW2. The set contains three original B&W pictures. First one: undated postcard showing Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, signed by himself in black ink, 8.5 x 13.5 cm, with two embossed mentions above and below. Second picture: undated postcard showing Poland President Gabriel Narutowicz, with a written mention on the back. Third picture: 11 x 15.5 cm photograph. General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski inspecting a British Cromwell tank, accompanied by Polish officers of the 3rd Armored Regiment (3 puk pancerny). The image was captured during an official ceremony in the city of Kelso, Scotland, in the immediate post-war period, on June 15, 1945. The scene shows the General in an observation position, climbing onto the tank while surrounded by Polish soldiers. The tank corresponds to a British model widely used by Polish forces in exile during the Western European campaign. On the reverse, the following handwritten inscriptions appear: VI 1945, Kelso. N. Wódz gen. Bór-Komorowski dokonuje inspekcji 3 p. panc. N. Wódz w towarzystwie bryg. puku na czogu." / June 15, 1945, Kelso The book is an illustrated three-languages (Polish, English and Italian) set commemorating the struggles of the Polish II Corps. Edited by Wyda Rererat [Referat] Kultury i Prasy Kresowej Dywizji Piechoty in Rome, 1945. Oblong book of 21 x 19 cm, unpaginated (144 pp.). Cover detached. Endpapers and first page show Janusz Gluchowski's stamp. In publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers. Each page contains a photographic image or a photomontage accompanied with a short text in three languages. Front cover shows some wear and tear, the binding is a bit loose - we would advise having this book bound. The Polish II Corps was a major tactical and operational unit recruited from Polish deportees in the Soviet Gulags in 1943. First they fought in the Middle East, and in 1944 February they were transferred to Italy and as independent part of the British Army to fight in the Italian campaign, in the battles of Monte Cassino and Ancona and also the Battle of Bologna during the final offensive in Italy in 1945. The book goes through the story of Poland and the later established Polish II Corps, starting with the German and Soviet occupation in 1939. It shows the deportation of Poles to forced labour to the Gulag and, after the Polish-Russian Military Agreement in 1941, the establishment of the Polish Army on Soviet soil, also their military training and their fights in various battles. Janusz Julian Gluchowski was a Major General in the Polish Army during the Second Polish Republic. He was born on August 6, 1888, in Bukowa. He fought in the Polish Legions in World War I, the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Polish-Soviet War, and the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia, and the Soviet Union in 1939, which culminated in the start of World War II. In his adolescence, he attended high school in Czstochowa. In 1905, he became a member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party and was wounded in the hand during an attack near Czstochowa. To avoid arrest by the Russian authorities, he left for Belgium, where he studied at the University of Liège. He returned to divided Poland around 1910 and settled in Austrian Galicia. In 1912 he graduated from the Officers' School of the Riflemen's Association in Stroza, near Krakow. In the early hours of August 1914, he commanded a platoon in Oleandria and was Wadysaw Belina-Pramowski's representative during the legendary attack of the so-called Seven Lancers of Belina (Uaska siódemka). On August 6th, together with the First Cadre Company, he left Krakow and marched to Miechów. In October 1914 he was promoted to Lieutenant (Poruchik) and, in November 1916, to Rittmeister (Cavalry Master). Until 1917 he served in the First Uhlan Regiment of the Polish Legions. After the Oath Crisis (Kryzys przysigowy) he was interned first in Fort Beniaminów and later in Werl. Released in October 1918, he went to Lublin, where, in early November, he formed the Third Ulan Regiment (later renamed the Seventh Ulan Regiment of Lublin). Along with his unit, he fought in the Polish-Soviet War. On May 29, 1920, he was promoted to Polkovnik. He was transferred in July 1920 to Eastern Galicia, taking command of the First Cavalry Brigade, fighting against the Soviets in Galicia and Volhynia. After the war, he remained in this position until 1925, when he was transferred to the Fourth Cavalry Brigade. Promoted to Brigadier General on March 16, 1927. Appointed commander of the Center for Higher Military Studies on June 4, 1930, and three years later, after the death of General Stanislaw Tessaro, he was appointed commander of Military District X in Przemyl. In October 1935, he became Deputy Minister of Military Affairs. In the early days of the 1939 invasion of Poland, Gluchowski ordered General Walerian Czuma to prepare the defense of Warsaw. In mid-September 1939, he fled to Romania. After his escape, he managed to travel to the Middle East and, in January 1941, received orders to go to London. In October 1941, he was appointed Commander of the Training Brigade stationed in Scotland. On September 23, 1943, he was appointed commander of all Polish Army units stationed in Great Britain, except the First Independent Parachute Brigade, which remained under the authority of the Commander-in-Chief. He was promoted to Major General on June 1, 1945. He decided not to return to Soviet-occupied Poland and remained in Great Britain. He frequently criticized the Soviet regime and the Soviet occupation authorities in postwar Poland. Furthermore, he was one of the founders and president of the Jozef Pilsudski Institute in London. He was, therefore, an active member of the Polish community in Great Britain. He was president and honorary member of several Polish veterans' organizations. He died on June 11, 1964, in London, England.
197119091971 Atelier Calevaert-Brun, Paris, (1971?). Petit in-folio, 40 xylographies, sous emboitage muet.
194343453London New York; Published on Behalf of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Hutchinson & Co 1943. 1st edition. Original illustrated red and white paper wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. 22 cm. National Government Publication. Printed in red and black ink. Includes a note by Polish Foreign Minister Edward Raczynski and speeches by Deputy Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk.<br> The official 16-page diplomatic publication from December 1942 by the Polish Government-in-Exile in London marking a turning point in international understanding of the Nazi destruction of the Jews of Europe. <br> Jan Karski a courier for the Polish Underground had smuggled microfilmed evidence and intelligence out of occupied Poland to London. This raw intelligence gathered from his time secretly inside the Warsaw Ghetto and the Izbica transit camp formed the core of the facts published in the booklet.<br> <br> "In October 1942 at the height of the destruction of Polish Jewry Jan Karski born Jan Kozielewski was ordered to clandestinely go to the West and deliver a report on the situation of occupied Poland to the Polish government-in-exile in London. The situation of the Jews in Poland was to be one section of that report. Since the government in exile was concerned with the internal politics of Poland's underground parties Karski held meetings with the different factions including the Jewish Zionist and the Jewish Socialist Bund movements. <br> Thus shortly before his departure Karski met with two Jewish leaders who asked him to inform the world's statesmen of the desperate plight of Polish Jewry and of the hopelessness of their situation. Their message was: 'Our entire people will be destroyed.'<br> The Jewish leaders' appeals touched Karski and he decided to see things with his own eyes in order to make his report. With great risk to his life he was smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto and into a camp in the Lublin area. The horrors he witnessed marked him deeply and propelled him to become not only the messenger of the Polish underground but to concentrate on giving voice to the suffering of the dying Jews.<br> In November 1942 Karski reached London delivered the report to the Polish government-in-exile and set out to meet Winston Churchill other politicians journalists and public figures. Upon completing his mission Karski went on to the United States where he met with President Roosevelt and other dignitaries and tried in vain to stir up public opinion against the massacre of the Jews. In 1944 while in the United States Karski wrote a book on the Polish Underground Story of a Secret State with a long chapter on the Jewish Holocaust in Poland.<br> After the war Karski stayed in the United States where he was later appointed Professor at Georgetown University Washington DC.<br> On 2 June 1982 Yad Vashem recognized Jan Karski as Righteous Among the Nations" Yad Vashem. <br> <br> Leading Holocaust scholar Lucy Dawidowicz cites the booklet in her now classic work "The Holocaust and the Historians" Harvard 1983 p. 167; the report could not be more explicit in its description of the horrors nor in its plea for help: <br> "The new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the German authorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the Jewish population of Poland and of the many thousands of Jews whom the German authorities have departed to Poland from Western and Central European countries and from the German Reich itself. The Polish Government considers it their duty to bring to the knowledge of the Governments of all civilised countries the following fully authenticated information received from Poland during recent weeks which indicates all too plainly the new methods of extermination adopted by the German authorities." <br> The report elaborates: "The actual process of deportation was carried out with appalling brutality. At the appointed hour on each day the German police cordoned off a block of houses selected for clearance entered the back yard and fired their guns at random as a signal for all to leave their homes and assemble in the yard. Anyone attempting to escape or to hide was killed on the spot. No attempt was made by the Germans to keep families together. Wives were torn from their husbands and children from their parents. Those who appeared frail or infirm were carried straight to the Jewish cemetery to be killed and buried there. <br> On the average 50-100 people were disposed of in this way daily. After the contingent was assembled the people were packed forcibly into cattle trucks to the number of 120 in each truck which had room for forty. The trucks were then locked and sealed. The Jews were suffocating for lack of air. The floors of the trucks were covered with quicklime and chlorine. As far as is known the trains were dispatched to three localities - Treblinka Belzec and Sobibor to what the reports describe as 'Extermination camps.' <br> The very method of transport was deliberately calculated to cause the largest possible number of casualties among the condemned Jews. It is reported that on arrival in camp the survivors were stripped naked and killed by various means including poison gas and electrocution. The dead were interred in mass graves dug by machinery." <br> <br> Read more about the singular importance of this publication at <br> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Extermination_of_Jews_in_German_Occupied_Poland# . <br> In 2020 Polish Postal authorities chose this very publication to illustrate their official first day cover honoring righteous Poles who had saved Jews during the Holocaust see illustration. <br> <br> Subjects: World War 1939-1945 - Jews - Poland. World War 1939-1945 - Poland - Atrocities. Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 - Poland. Jews - Poland. OCLC: 234118765. <br> Touch of staining at staples without the rust almost always seen in other surviving copies. Very Good condition. A copy with rust stains sold in 2018 at auction for over £6000. Rare and very important. BHOLO2-97-48-MMXRLADFACC. London, New York; Published on Behalf of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Hutchinson & Co unknown
1943140946511London New York & Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Co 1943. First edition. First edition. 16 pp. Staple bound in publisher's self wraps. Near Fine with a little rusting to staples and staining along spine. A bright attractive copy of a momentous historical document. <p>For the first time this pamphlet publicly disclosed the ongoing Holocaust for an Allied audience in the midst of World War II with information provided by Polish diplomat-tuned-secret-agent Jan Karski. It focused on events in Poland including the Warsaw Ghetto rebellion and mentioned various concentration camps in Eastern Europe. It also contained the text of the Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations of 17 December 1942 and an excerpt of a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk of 27 November 1942. Rare in commerce. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Co unknown
