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1948(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 306, [7]pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Added title page in English: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. This excellent bibliography and history was compiled by Mendel Osherowitch (1888-1965) , the Yiddish journalist, novelist and historian, was born in Trostyanetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, which was then part of Galicia, in January 1888. He came to New York City in 1910 after a short stay in Palestine and immediately began writing for various Yiddish periodicals, including Yidisher Kemfer, Zukunft and Freie Arbeiter Stimme. He joined the staff of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1914 as a feature writer and later worked as the city editor for ten years, as the Sunday editor, and as a staff writer on Russian affairs, a position which he held until his retirement from the Forward in January of 1965. Osherowitch was the Chairman of the Committee to Protect the Jews in the Ukraine, which was renamed the Association to Perpetuate the Memory of the Ukrainian Jews after World War II. He edited and contributed to the two volume Jews in the Ukraine [published 1961-1967], a proposed three-volume work sponsored by the committee of which only two volumes were ever published. (YIVO) . Subjects: Jews - Soviet Union - History. Jews - Ukraine - History. Ukraine - Ethnic relations. Soviet Union - Ethnic relations. Old damp stains, pages a bit wavy, otherwise condition. (YIZ-13-11B)
19821st edition. Original cloth with dust jacket. 4to, x+ 205 (English) + 396 (Yiddish) + v pages. Illustrations throughout. Bialystok's strength rests only in its extraordinary features but in its normal characteristics as well. The fifty thousand living there are doing reasonably well financially and also spiritually, like other Jews in Poland. Still, Bialystok was the first, at the end of the German occupation after World War I, to abolish its autocratic community leadership, replacing it with an exemplary democratic system that will do down in history. The Hebraist movement in Bialystok was only a part of the diffuse cultural advance in all of Poland. But when Bialystok established its Hebrew Gymnasium (high school) it was the rank and file Jews, not the radical Hebraists, who erected it. The tall, sturdy building evoked the admiration of the local community as well as of visitors from near and far, especially since it could accommodate seven hundred students. The Yiddish influence in Bialystok was also only a part of the Yiddish movement in all of Poland and in the entire world. But with the exception of Wilno, no other Jewish town besides Bialystok was able to fashion such an intricate Yiddish school network, let alone a high school, despite difficult circumstances. The orphan problem became one of the most critical social issues in Bialystok after World War I. Surely no other city had someone like Mrs. Rabinowicz, who, when the situation became next to hopeless, was the only leader in all of Poland who went to America to obtain the necessary assistance for these unfortunate children. It is possible to mention hundreds of other examples of community and private initiatives in Bialystok which clearly depict its special atmosphere of effervescing creativity a contagion transmitted from one to another compelling everyone to outdo his neighbour. Such is the breeding ground for important accomplishments. (Pejsach Kaplan, a prominent Bialystoker writer and social activist) SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Poland -- Bialystok. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Memorial books (Holocaust) . Jewish (1939-1945) Ethnic relations. OCLC: 19303249. Dust jacket has light wear on edges and corners, else near perfect condition. Very Good Condition overall. (YIZ-16-2B)xx
19511st edition. Original Publishers cloth. 4to. VIII, 2008 pages. 29 cm. In Yiddish. First edition. Edited by Mendel Sudarsky, Uriah Katzenelenbogen, J. Kissen. This Yizkor volume consists of hundreds of testimonies and local histories compiled by Lithuanian survivors and landsmanshaftn detailing their communities history and the destruction thereof, is an extremely important contribution to regional Jewish historiography and to knowledge about the Holocaust era in Europe. From the preface to the second volume:"the momentous compilation Lite (published in 1951 in New York) which was received by the general Jewish public with such appreciation" (from the forword to Vol II, issued a decade later). Subjects: Jews - Lithuania - History. Lithuania - Ethnic relations. Memorial volumes. Lithuania - History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Lithuania. Cities and towns - Lithuania. OCLC lists copies 8 copies worldwide. Inscription on title page, a few margin notes in index, light wear, Good + condition. (yiz-7-9)
19501st Yiddish Edition. Original Publishers Cloth, 8vo, 416 pages. Includes illustrations and map. Includes Spanish Title page: Judios de Kischeneff. Translation of Yehude Kishinov, originally published in Hebrew. Vol III in the series, Besaraber Yidn. Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-416). The name of Kishinev became known to the world at large as a result of two pogroms. The first, initiated and organized by the local and central authorities, took place during Easter on April 67, 1903 .The pogrom was preceded by a poisonous anti-Jewish campaign led by P. Krushevan , director of the Bessarabian newspaper Bessarabets, who incited the population through a constant stream of vicious articles. One of the authors of the most virulent articles was the local police chief, Levendall. In such a heated atmosphere any incident could have dire consequences, and when the body of a Christian child was found, and a young Christian woman patient committed suicide in the Jewish hospital, the mob became violent. A blood libel , circulated by the Bessarabets, spread like wildfire. (It was later proved that the child was murdered by his relatives and that the suicide of the young woman was in no way connected with the Jews.) According to official statistics, 49 Jews lost their lives and more than 500 were injured, some of them seriously; 700 houses were looted and destroyed and 600 businesses and shops were looted. The material loss amounted to 2,500,000 gold rubles, and about 2,000 families were left homeless. Both Russians and Romanians joined in the riots. Russians were sent in from other towns and the students of the theological seminaries and the secondary schools and colleges played a leading role. The garrison of 5,000 soldiers stationed in the city, which could easily have held back the mob, took no action. Public outcry throughout the world was aroused by the incident and protest meetings were organized in London, Paris, and New York. A letter of protest written in the United States was handed over to President Theodore Roosevelt to be delivered to the czar, who refused to accept it. Under the pressure of public opinion, some of the perpetrators of the pogrom were brought to justice but they received very lenient sentences. L.N. Tolstoy expressed his sympathy for the victims, condemning the czarist authorities as responsible for the pogrom. The Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko described the pogrom in his story House No. 13 as did ?.N. Bialik in his poem Be-Ir ha-Haregah (In the Town of Death).On Oct. 1920, 1905, riots broke out once more. They began as a protest demonstration by the patriots against the czar's declaration of Aug. 19, 1905, and deteriorated into an attack on the Jewish quarter in which 19 Jews were killed, 56 were injured, and houses and shops were looted and destroyed: damages amounted to 300,000 rubles. On this occasion, some of the Jewish youth organized itself into self-defense units . The two pogroms had a profound effect on the Jews of Kishinev. Between 1902 and 1905 their numbers dropped from around 60,000 to 53,243, many immigrating to the United States and the Americas, while many more left after the second attack. The economic development of the town was brought to a standstill .On July 17, 1941, Kishinev was occupied by German and Romanian units, who entered it together with units of Einsatzgruppe D. The massacre of Kishinev's Jews began immediately under the auspices of the Einsatzgruppe, and by the time the concentration of Jews into a ghetto was completed, about 10,000 had been slaughtered. ....On Oct. 4, 1941, deportations began to Transnistria , the first group containing 1,600 persons. After this, between 700 and 1,000 Jews were deported daily, the last group leaving on October 31. ...In Transnistria Jews were sent to various camps and ghettos, where two-thirds of them died from epidemics, hunger, and exposure. The exact number of dead is not known, but taking into account the proportion of those killed in Bessarabia from the time of the Romanian and German conquest until the deportations to Transnistria on the one hand, and the number of those who died in Transnistria on the other, it may be estimated that of the 65,000 Jewish inhabitants in Kishinev in 1941, 53,000 perished (JewishVirtualLibrary). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Moldova -- Chisinau -- History. Joden. Ethnic relations. Kisjinev. Moldova -- Chisinau. OCLC: 11355859. Institutional bookplate and edgestamps, otherwise clean, spine lightly sunned, about Very Good Condition (YIZ-20-38)
1947Original blue gilt-tooled calf leather. 12mo. 120, 194, 194 pages. 18 cm. Survivors Bible, printed by Vaad Hatzala. Pentateuch, Haftarot and Megilot with commentary of Rashi and Targum. 'Matanah me-et Va'ad ha-hatsalah le-she'erit ha-peletah. ' Title page has coloured illustration. With dedication page to President Harry Truman with superimposed American Flag. "The remnants of Israel that survived the great destruction wrought upon our people by Hitler's hoards, these shattered remenats the 'Sherith Hepleita' were weakened physically and spiritually...we wish to dedicate this Holy Bible, the very ancient well of civilization, to his Honor, the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman. His courageous and kind words, his noble acts and deeds in behalf of our people have served as a ray of hote in these trying, troubleed and most cdritical period of our people..." With "Mr. M. Shipper inscribed in gilt on upper cover.Issued by the Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee for the benefit of the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust (Sheerit Hapleita). This custom-bound copy likely prepared for an American donor.See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) p. 34 (illustrated). Subjects: Haftarot - Commentaries. Bible. Pentateuch - Commentaries. Bible. Five Scrolls - Commentaries. Pentateuch. Hebrew. 1947.; Holy Bible: Vaad Hatzala, Germany. OCLC lists 15 copies. A copy sold at auction in 2021 for over $1200. Outstanding copy in original deluxe blue leather binding, Very Good condition. (HOLO2-117-58B)
19501st edition. Original cloth. 4to, 307 pages. Yiddish. The shtetl of Gliniany once played a large role in Polish history. A decree of the Polish kingdom is found in the archives of the Gliniany community. The decree announced that the city of Gliniany was to be referred to as the Royal Free City of Gliniany. The wordsKrolewstwo Wolny Miasto Gliniany are engraved on the seal of the city hall. Due to the privilege of appearing in the king's decree, the nobleman who owned the city no longer had the right to force residents of Gliniany to work for him as forced laborers. After the death of the Polish king, Casirmirz the Great, Polish senators traveled to Hungary and crowned King Ludwig of Hungary as king of Poland. The senators gave him the gift of the entirety of Galicia, which in those days was calledCherwony Rus [Red Russia], which was a part of Poland. When the issue became known in the kingdom of Poland, it caused tremendous dissatisfaction. In Gliniany a large meeting was held, which subsequently led to a political trial, because of the actions of the senators. Ludwig attended the trial together with a regiment of Hungarian hussars. The result of the trial was the beheading of seven Polish senators. In Polish history, the trial was known as The Tragedy of Gliniany. Many years ago there was a large district that covered a large territory. On one side there were fields and forests that extended all the way to the village of Khonochovka, near the city of Premyshlan. On the other side forests and fields stretched all the way to just south of Lemberg. Over time, the size of the territory that had belonged to the city declined, and in the 18th century the city of Gliniany, together with the neighboring gentile regions, included an area of approximately nine square miles. (translation from book) SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Ukraine, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) , Ethnic relations. OCLC: 19305032, OCLC lists 30 copies. Ex- library with usual marks, dampstains, some pages wavy, but Good solid Condition Overall. (YIZ-16-7A)
1941Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 21 cm. First separate edition. Founder's Day address, Hebrew Union College, March 29, 1941. Reprinted from the Synagogue, Sept. And Oct. 1941. Essay on Wise's life and thought to serve as a comparison between the ideals and times of the nineteenth century (equalitarianism, freedom, the fight against anti-semitism) and the horrors in Germany today. With long reflections on the relationship of Wise to Zionism, Judaism, and America. The author, George Zepin, was born in Russia in 1878. In 1900 he was ordained as a rabbi at Hebrew Union College. From 1917-1941 Zepin was secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Subjects: Reform Judaism - United States. Reform Judaism. Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900. OCLC Number: 5664579. OCLC lists 9 copies. Light soiling and wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (AMR-46-6)
1940First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 119 pages; 18 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era publication from Paris. Title translates to Toward the historic day of judgment, the Jewish people between curses and redemption Published early in the Holocaust, Ben-Adir argues for the enactment of national introspection and calm rather than territorialism! Ben-Adir (18781942) was writer and Jewish socialist leader, born in Krucha, Belorussia. He was a child prodigy and left for university in Minsk at the age of 16. While there, he was heavily influenced by Jewish socialism. After the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Ben-Adir published an article advocating political Zionism in opposition to the ideology of Ahad Ha-Am. After then Kishinev pogrom of 1903 Ben-Adir published a call for the formation of a Jewish party which would combine the aims of revolutionary socialism with national Jewish aspirations. Ben-Adir was one of the founders and ideologists of the Vozrozhdeniye group, and of its successor of the Sejmists (Jewish Socialist Workers' Party) whose program included Jewish national-political autonomy while envisaging territorial sovereignty as a remote aim. Ben-Adir stayed in Erets Israel between 1925 and 1927 but returned to Berlin, leaving for Paris in 1933. "Algemeyne geshikhtlekhe perspektivn un problemen -- tsentrale yidishe problem." SUBJECTS: Zionism Jewish nationalism. OCLC Number:19316146. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Minor browning, edgewear to wrappers at corners. Overall Very Good- Condition. (ZION-14-52)
19371st edition. Original illustrated wrappers. 8vo. 57 pages, 22 cm. In German. Title translates to The Jewish Runner. Inscribed by the author on the inside front cover. Published in Berlin the year after the 1936 Olympics there. Felix Daniel Pinczower (1901-1993) was a German-Jewish sportsman and journalist who played for the Jewish "Hakoach" Berlin. While working as a sports journalist he covered the second Maccabiah, held in Tel-Aviv in 1935 and the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Pinczower immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939 after being arrested on Kristallnacht for five weeks. SUBJECTS: Running in the Bible. OCLC lists 6 copies in the US (HUC, LBI, YIVO, Harvard, LOC, Spertus) (OCLC:9894449). Light edge wear to wrappers. Very good condition. (YID-41-47)
19361st edition thus. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 15 pages. 23 cm. Nazi-era abridged and condensed version of an article originally published in Fortune magazine, and later published by Random House. This booklet presented by the Editors of Digest and Review. The Jewish Problem has become violently acute in recent years. What is anti-Semitism? How does it start? Does it exist in the United States? Is it true that Jews control industry, business, public opinion? [ ] The Editors of Fortune undertook to make such an impartial survey. Their conclusions, it is safe to say, were totally unexpected both by Jews and non-Jews. The results of this research, appearing originally in Fortune, were later published in book form by Random House. (Publishers Description) In reference to the original appearance of this article in Fortune Isaac Goldberg writes, in his monograph The So-Called Protocols of the Elders of Zion , It proves, once again beyond the slightest doubt, that the Jew despite this prominent person or the other, is not anything like the power in national affairs invented by the Protocol-terrorizers. (Goldberg, pg 24) Subjects: Jews United States. Jewish Question. Antisemitism. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Very minimal age toning to wrappers. Bright crisp and clean. Very goodcondition. (HOLO2-116-23)
19481st edition. Original Cloth, Large 8vo, 2, 39, 435 Pages. Text in Yiddish. Includes two dozen photos, with 70 pages of musical notations with English transliteration of the Yiddish songs. Wear to spine, otherwise Very Good Condition. (holo2-125-37)
19341st edition. Softcover, 32 pages, 8vo, 22 cm. "Including the Report of the High Commissioner Mr. James G. McDonald and the Concluding Remarks of the Chairman the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, K.C." SUBJECT (S) : Political refugees. Jews -- Germany. Jewish refugees. Cover title. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Light wear, Very good condition. (Holo2-22-27A)
1946Original Cloth. 8vo. XVII, 184, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. 'Women in the Ghettos'. Contents: In di getos un untererd - Partizanen in kamf - Geshtaltn - Portretn - Parashutistn - Tsu di bregn fun heymland. Emphasizes women partisans and the ghetto resistance, entire section devoted to Hannah Senesh. Illustrated throughout. Compiled by Leib Spizman (1903-1963) , Yiddish writer, member of the Farband-Labor Zionist Orders national executive committee and of the secretariat of the World Congress for Jewish Culture, he came to the United States via Japan in 1940. Subjects: Jewish women in the Holocaust. World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Senesh, Hannah, 1921-1944. OCLC: 18995782. Pen notations in Yiddish on 5 pages, otherwise Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-49-AELX)
19371st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 4-8 pages each. Conservative Jewish men's group newsletter from the Holocaust period from the the second synagogue founded in New York (1825) and the third-oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in the United States. "The object of the 'Tattler' will be to provide the members with a regular source of information and entertainment....The Pogroms in Russia during the Czarist regime or the activities of the Zionist movement in recent years had no such effect on the consciousness of the average American Jew except to stir a sense of pity and sympathy for the afflicted ones. But the cruel, heartless persecutions of the Jews in Germany by Hitler and his crew, caused a stirring in the blood of Native Americans of Jewish birth that made them turn about and recall the religion of their fathers and the God of Israel. We of The Men's Club of the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun welcome with open arms all those who are returning to the fold." Most issues include commentary on the increasing oppression of the Jews in Germany; other issues discussed include some current Jewish news, some retelling of Jewish history, congregation news, editorials, fun facts, jokes with lessons. OCLC: 944959016, OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (JTS & USHMM), though these holdings appear to be incomplete. First issue shows edgewear, other issues show only creases from folding, touch of wear, good quality paper with just the slightest toning. About Very Good Condition Overall. Rare (HOLO2-159-22A)
18951st edition. Original green paper wrappers, 12mo, 56 pages. Singerman 4882. In his early days in the United States, Isaac Moses "was considered a radical Reformer, but later he took a more moderate position. In 1884 he introduced his own prayer book (Tefillat Yisrael). Moses was a founding member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and a member of the Reform committee charged with compiling an official prayer book. The appearance of the Union Prayer Book in 1894 has been credited to his personal initiative in preparing and circulating a manuscript when the committee's work seemed to be leading nowhere. Moses also published a number of sermons and textbooks for children. His Sabbath School Hymnal, first issued in 1894, ran into 14 editions. While in Milwaukee, he edited the weekly Der Zeitgeist (1880-82). " (encyclopedia.com) In one of these sermons, Rabbi Moses discusses the evils that occurred in Egypt and then goes on to say, "Does not out civilization show the most alarming symptoms of the evils and the diseases of Egypt? We have fought for the emancipation of the negro, but the enslavement of the masses by our modern indutrial system threatens to become a plague worse than ever befell the birth-place of Moses. " Subjects: Jewish sermons, American. English -- United States. OCLC: 25225212, Spine rebacked, coveres rubbed and worn, but solid. Good Condition Overall. Scarce. (AMR-57-6-BL).
19361st edition, original wrappers, 8vo. 31 pages, charts throughout. In Spanish. Title translates to The Jewish Population in the Argentine Republic. Holocaust-era lecture delivered on October 23, 1935 by Simon Weill. Pages 25-31 are charts Resumen General de la Poblacion Israelita en la Republica Argentina Ano 1934. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington notes of Argentina during the war, "Argentina, which had admitted 79,000 Jewish immigrants between 1918 and 1933, officially admitted 24,000 between 1933 and 1943. Another 20,000 Jews entered Argentina illegally, crossing the border from neighboring countries." SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Argentina -- Statistics. Population. OCLC: 33237945, OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Spine repair, some pencil marks on cover. Internally very good, Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-141-15-ABBCCIII-'+).
19481st edition, original portfolio wrappers, 8vo. 53 pages, plus many blank and unnumbered pages. Illustrations throughout. In French. Title translates as, Without Flowers Nor Crowns. This book is told in the first person, in a succession of scenes, impressions, portraits, thoughts, reflections and emotions that, in chapters very brief and titled, make up a devastating panorama about Elinas experience in Auschwitz. (elcultural.com 2018). "When I returned from Auschwitz in 1945, I felt what I had just experienced with such acuteness that it was impossible for me to keep it to myself. I recorded it in notes and drawings. This constituted Without flowers nor Crowns. I do not regret having written these notes as soon as I returned from camp because, over time, memories become distorted, they become watered down or dramatized, but always move away from the truth. (...)" Odette Elina (1910-1991) was a painter, was deported by the Gestapo to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944 as a communist, but above all and above all because she was Jewish. In 1940, she entered the French Resistance network, she had had an initial function to establish the liaison between the writers residing in the South zone (notably Mauriac, Aragon and Julien Benda) before entering the Secret Army in 1942. We actually know very little about the biographical career of Elina before and after her deportation, apart from her exacerbated desire on leaving the Camp to testify to her life in the Camp. Without Flowers nor Crowns, [was] originally published in 1948 in the wake of the first testimonies on the Holocaust that appeared in the post-war years..." (Isabelle Dumont). SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Camps de concentration -- Récits personnels. Französin. Elina, Odette. Auschwitz (Concentration camp). Konzentrationslager. OCLC: 58452978 (2005 edition by later publisher, with the OCLC record incorrectly listing the original 1st edition as 1947 instead of 1948). OCLC lists no 1948 (or 1947) copies online. Pages are loose as issued, in an illustrated portfolio. This book is one of 270 numbered copies. Illustrated with 12 inset drawings, one reproduced on the cover; the title page mentions 13 drawings (?), but there are only 12, the same number as reproduced in the 1982 reissue [and also in the other copy of this first edition we examined], so "13" would seem to be incorrect or possibly counting the repeated drawing on the cover. Portfolio is slightly rubbed with short closed tear at lower front inside fold and spine has some creasing, else Very Good Condition. Important and exceedingly rare (HOLO2-141-27-IIIXX)
20111st edition. Original slipcase and stiff paper wrappers. 63, 42, 27, 43, 31, 55 pages [261 pages total] 21 x 30 cm. In Polish. Title translates to Looking at the Warsaw Ghetto. Six separate volumes entitled Krochmalna, Leszno, Karmelicka, Nowolipie, Mila, and Stawki. Jacek Leociak (1957-) is a Polish literary historian and author. He is professor of humanities and an employee of the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw (Wikipedia, 2018). SUBJECTS: Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century. Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw. OCLC:729248710. Very good condition. (HOLO2-142-12-ADFX)
19488vo; First edition. Original boards. 8 vo, 342 pages TTitle translates to In the Years of the Jewish Holocaust: The Voice of the Underground Alliance. SUBJECTS: World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland. OCLC: 7409650. Cloth lightly worn. Very good condition. (HOLO2-147-41-ABELX+)
1945Original paper wrappers with colorful illustrated dust jacket, 8vo, 83 pages, plus 12 plates of facsimiles and photos of survivors taken by Burger just after liberation, (including one photo of former Sonderkommandos) . Original 1945 edition Adolf Burgers memoirs about his journeys through the Nazi concentration camps and his work in the counterfeiting workshop in Oranienburg, narrated by Sylva and Oskar Krejci. His memoirs are the basis for the film, The Counterfieters, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Adolf Burger took up a job in a printing house in Bratislava in 1938 he became one of those who received government-sponsored waivers from deportations as someone with skills indispensable for the country's economy. At the request of resistance members, Burger began to print false baptismal certificates for Jews scheduled for deportation, which stated that they had been Roman Catholic from birth, or baptized so before World War II. Slovaks with such documents were not deported. Burger's activity was discovered. He was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp After eighteen months at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Burger's training came through for him once more. He was selected for Operation Bernhard, transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in April 1944, and eventually to the Ebensee site of the Mauthausen camp network where he was liberated by the US Army on 6 May 1945 (Wikipedia, 2016) . The covers use a montage design of US currency, British documents, and Burgers concentration camp insignia. SUBJECT(S) : WWII, Resistance, Concentration Camps. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Some tears to jacket at folds, Minimal stains and slight toning. Very good condition. Dramatic and attractive. (HOLO2-134-63A)
19441st English Edition. 8vo. Original Wrappers. 15, [1] pages ; 19 cm. Contemporary report, published the month after the trial, on one of the the first two war crimes trials against Nazi defendants, held almost 2 years before the Nuremberg Trials. "A Russia Today Pamphlet/First published January 1944. A historic account of the Trial in which three officials of the Kharkov Gestapo (Hans Rietz, Wilhelm Langfeld, and Reinhard Retzlaff) were tried before a Soviet military Court at Kharkov, Ukraine, from December 15, 1943, to December 18, 1943. All were found guilty and sentenced to death. (Jewish Virtual Library, 2017) The pamphlet is written by Bohuslav Ecer a year before the Nuremberg Trial, in which Ecer played a significant role. Bohuslav Ecer (1893 - 1954) was a professor of international criminal law. He was a member of the Commission of the United Nations War Crimes, and chairman of the Czechoslovakian delegation at the International Military Tribunal for the punishment of war criminals at Nuremberg, as well as a judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. A street in Bystrc is named after him. (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : War crimes trials, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1943. Rusty staple. Some edgewear and minor foxing. About very good condition. Important. (holo2-135-7) xx
19421st edition. Undated, but definitely published Dec. 1942-April 1943 based on ads and statements inside. Octavo, original stapled paper covers, 98 pages. Important Holocaust-era documentation of the attrocities befalling the Jews of Europe,Opening with a statement from FDR from Dec 1942 and continuing with articles by Hayim Greenberg, Victor Gollancz, Marie Syrkin, and the Archbishop of Toulouse as well as unsigned reports on the various nations of Europe. Includes a map as well as documentation of "The Extermination Center" at Chelmno and the use of extermination vans followed by burial in mass graves with chemical desolving agents. . Light wear, Small mark on cover, about Very Good Condition. Important (Holo2-120-1-+-'e)
19411st edition. Original paper wrappers. Horizontal 8vo, 31 leaves, missing bibliography which would have started on page 32, otherwise complete. Booklet 1 of 3 only, from Series II. Holocaust-era imprint. Includes four talks: The Jewish Labourer in Palestine until the last Great War, The Problems of Jewish Labour in the Villages, The various Phases in the Development of Jewish Labour, and Institutions and Schemes for the Jewish Labourers in the Villages. This letter is the first in the series of Lettersto Instructors on the activities of the Jewish National Capital and of the Keren Hayesod in the fields of Labour, Housing, Public works and Marine Activities, put into effect by the Department of Labour of the Jewish Agency. As in the preceding letters so here, only the bare outline of the question is dealt with, and only the general background of the problem of the Jewish Labourer in the country is treated. It remains for the instructor to follow up the subject, to extend its limits in order to unfold it before his charges in all its ramifications and importance. (page 4-5) OCLC: 1030793783, OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide: National Library of Israel. Typescript mimeograph. Missing bibliography from end and back wrapper. Pages 29 and 30 are missing a corner, some text is affected. Page 31 is repaired and has some additional chipping, though all text is present. Pages 29, 30, and 31 are reattached. Cover has an inch long tear, some pages have some small tears. Some pencil marks on cover, else clean copy. Good Condition (of the pages present) Overall. Very rare. (HOLO2-144-2)
19481st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 47 pages. Easty post war report on the heroic wartime activities of the British Secion of the WJC. 11 plates of letters in back. The British Scection was formally established at a National Conference in November, 1936, when an Executive Committee was elected. From the first, the Section participated actively in all the campaigns conducted by the World Jewish Congress in relation to many problems affecting European Jewry, especially those arising from the Nazi anti-Jewish terror and the sufferings of East European Jewry through the persecutions, humiliations and discriminations of reactionary Governmnets. It called a number of important National Conferences, such as that for the Defence of Rights of Polish Jews in 1937, a mass demonstration to protest against Nazi terror in 1938, and conducted a campaign in which over 300 University professors and lecturers signed a protest against tge Ghetto Benches in Poland in 1939. On these occasions, the British Section received messages from many outstanding leaders of the churches and political parties (page 3) OCLC: 857441, OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (HUC, British Libr Reference Collections, National Libr of Israel, and Eth-bibliothek Zurich). Corners dented, cover edges slightly sunned, clean copy. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-144-3-'a+)
19511st edition. Original illustrated color wrappers. 32mo, 14 cm, 96 pages. In German. Inscription from Hilde Marx on title page.Hilde Marx was a German- American poet, writer, and journalist who fled Nazi Germany to Czechoslavakia and then to New York City. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry. Cover illustration by Peggy Kraft of a mother and child against a New York street background. OCLC: 5573454, OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Few pencil marks on title page, else Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-144-4)
