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19451st edition. Loose sheets as issued, in later custom clamshell box with original portfolio cover mounted on front. 4to. One of 3200 Numbered Copies. 111 plates of drawings, the first 100 relating to Buchenwald, plus 6 portraits, and 5 aquarelles in color. Captions in French, English, and Russian. 26 cm. Title page and preface in French. Boris Taslitzky began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the academie Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1925 and 1933. In 1933, he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (A. É. AR) where he became general secretary of the section of Painters and Sculptors, and then in 1935, he joined the Communist Party. In 1936, during the presentation of Quatorze Juillet, by Romain Rolland , Taslitzky participated in the exhibition that brought together Picasso , Léger , Matisse , Braque , Jean Lurcat , Laurens and Pinion in the lobby of the Alhambra Theatre. Taslitzky was captured in June 1940, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison, and then on July 31, 1944 was deported to Buchenwald , where he manages to make some two hundred drawings showing life in the camps. "If I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn! ... ", he later said. His mother died at Auschwitz . In 1946, Taslitzky exhibited his works which were inspired by the Resistance and Deportation, winning the Prix Blumenthal. He was later awarded the Military Cross and Military Medal and in 1997 he received the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour under the Resistance and Deportation. He was both witness and actor in the story of French Resistance and the Holocaust. SUBJECT(S) : Concentration camps -- Pictorial works. Buchenwald (Camp de) Guerre mondiale 1939-1945. Prisonniers et déportés. Camps allemands. Buchenwald. Album. Concentration camps. Pictorial works. Wear to original illustrated cover, which has been mounted on front of box, but no damage to illustration. Moving, early, and important. (holo2-125-44) xx
19431st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 24 pages. Loaded with Photographic illustrations of refugee childrens artwork, including children who came to England on the Kindertransport from Germany. Consists of 20 reproductions of paintings and drawings by children in the exhibition "The war as seen by children, " a foreword by J. G. Siebert, outlining the history of the exhibition, and a speech by Austrian-emigre artist Oskar Kokoschka at its opening, January 4, 1943, in the Cooling galleries, New Bond street, a fund-raiser for the German refugee school at Theydon Bois. Variant title: Our Children To-day and To-morrow. No. 1. SUBJECT (S) : Child artists. Art -- Exhibitions. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works. World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. Exhibition catalogs. A similar copy sold at auction in 2015 for over USD 650. Light Wear, Very Good Condition. (Holo2-126-16) xx
19461st edition. Original printed boards. 8vo, 62 pages. Commemorating prominent French-speaking rabbis and ministers who were murdered in the Holocaust. Introductions by Chief Rabbi Yeshayahu Schwartz and Leon Meiss, chairman of the Consistoire Central of the Jews of France. Very Good Condition. An Outstanding copy. (KH-5-53)
19451st edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 32 pages, chiefly photographic illustrations. 16 cm. Exhibition of Photographic Images of German Concentration Camps and Destroyed Arnhem. Catalog for the exhibition, with 24 pages of full-page photos, plus 8 pages of photo descriptions. Text in Dutch. On page 10 is the famous and controversial photo of the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald (first published in the "New York Times" on May 6, 1945 with the caption "Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald" taken inside Block 56 by Private H. Miller of the Civil Affairs Branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945.) . In the year following the defeat of the Nazis, exhibitions of photos showing the horrors of the Concentration Camps were a way to show the people of Europe what had been done by the Germans and their allies, and, eventually, to build support for the idea of War Crimes trials. Foto's ... Afgestaan door de U. S. I. S. (United States Information Service, Photographic Section, Amsterdam) en Jan Schiet, fotograaf, Amsterdam. Despite the title, there are no pictures nor text referring to Arnhem in the bookonly from the concentration camps. The Arnhem material may have appeared only in the exhibition itself. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide, all in the Netherlands (Sept 2015) . Blue wrappers are sunned with some spotting, spine repaired, otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important. (holo2-126-33A) xx
19871st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 14 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 15th Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Elie Wiesel a year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking to the US Military Academy, Weisel says, I shall always remember the day I was liberated by the American Army: April 11, 1945 I remember a black sergeant, huge, marvelous. I saw him cry, and I heard him curse; he saw the corpses, he saw the victims, he understood what no one would ever understand, that something had happened in history that had changed history, and in his helplessness, he simply cursed, and to me his curses became pure prayers OCLC lists just 3 copies worldwide (West Point, US Army War College, Texas A&M) . Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Very good+ Condition. Scarce and important. (HOLO2-130-55A)
19551st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 36 pages 21 cm. Seweryna Szmaglewska (19161992) was a Polish writer, known for both books for children and adults alike. Her novels are compulsory reading in Polish schools Between 1942 and 1945 she was an inmate of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp she was one of very few [ethnic] Poles to testify at the Nuremberg Trials. (Wikipedia, 2016) OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. About very good condition. (holo2-130-67A)
1947First edition. Original green paper wrappers with blue ink. 8vo. 56 pages; 22 cm. The goal of this DP-era study was to study the conditions and facts relating to immigration in the post-war period; to examine the relationship between present policy, the social and economic needs of the United States, and the basic ideals of American democracy; and to educate the public so that the question of post-war immigration can be dealt with in a spirit of objectivity, rather than of bias and fear. Divided into 5 chapters such as The Foreign Born as Part of Our Population, : What Size Population Do We Want? and Immigration and Population Policy. Includes graphs and tables throughout. SUBJECT (S) : Immigration, Population, Post-war. Some folds and slight toning. Very minimal markings. Very good condition. (Holo2-133-7)
19351st Edition. Original Red Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 56 pages ; 24 cm. In German. Title Translates into English as, The German Aliya In Histadruth. Includes the full German text of addresses from Georg Landauer, Moscheh Brachmann, Hans Rubin, Fritz Löwenstein, and Josef Sprinzak. Sprinzak was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959. (Wikipdia, 2016) SUBJECT(S) : Jews, German -- Palestine. Histadrut. OCLC lits 5 copies worldwide (Stanford, Harvard, HUC, NLI, Univ of Haifa) , none in New York. Wrappers are worn with a few tears. Small marking on title page. Overall about very good condition. (zion-10-60A)
1970light sunneing to spine, overall Very Good Condition; Small 8vo; 16 pages; Original paper wrappers. Small 8vo, 16 pages. Reprint by this modern hate-group. Full title: TEXT OF SAMUEL UNTERMEYER'S [SIC] "SACRED WAR" SPEECH AUGUST 7, 1933, UPON HIS RETURN FROM THE WORLD-WIDE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH BOYCOTT CONFERENCE AT AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND AND FATHER COUGHLIN'S COMMENTS MARCH 16, 1942. Singerman #608: "Untermyer's declaration of an economic boycott against German goods is followed by Coughlin's article from SOCIAL JUSTICE, March 16, 1942, suggesting that theJews declared war on Germany in 1933. World War II is seen as a Jewish-inspired war to rescue 600,000 German-Jewish aristocrats from Nazism. Only reprint edition [has been] seen by compiler"--and Singerman lists only one library as owning a copy of this reprint. Very good condition. (HOLO2-34-70-XX)
1976Paperclip marks on copyright page, Very Good Condition Lacks Jacket? ; 8vo; xiii, 91 pages; 8vo., 91 pages. Very heavy work, includes apendices on the German Account (in the German) , the Portuguese Documents (in Portuguese) , etc. Letter from Hebrew Union College laid in. Very Good + condition. (SEF-23-17)xx
1933Ex-library with usual marks; front hinge broken, Fair to Good Lacks Jacket? ; Large 8vo; 419 pages; Original Cloth. Janowski's Early magnum opus. Edgewear to jacket. Binding solid. Without jacket, institutional marks. Otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition (HOLO2-59-3)
19458vo; 38 pages; Guido Kisch's copy. Not in Wolff nor Robinson & Friedman. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - History - Sources. Jews - Political and social conditions - 20th century. Palestine - History - 1917-1948. Israel - History - 20th century. Summary: Pamphlet advocates formation of self-governing Jewish state Closed tear to front cover. Very Good Condition; (HOLO2-98-30)
19408vo; 48 pages; "Do you want to know the truth?" From occupied Holland. Dutch-language Booklet describes Hitler as a wonderful, caring, peace-loving leader. Profusely illustrated with photographs of Hitler among children, pets, flowers, the elderly, smiling Nazi youth, and so forth. "Im auftrage des Reichskommissars für die besetsten Niederlandischen gebiete herausgegeben von der Hauptabteilung für volksauflärung und propaganda." OCLC lists twelve copies worldwide. Pages brown with some chipping to front cover and spine; otherwise very good condition. (AS-2)
1995Very Good Condition; Small 8vo; 409 pages. (HOLO2-111-5)
Original paper wrappers. 8vo; 64 pages. By one of the Bund's key leaders in Poland. Very Good Condition with some markings in first pages. (AC-2-11)
1944Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 28 pages. 23 cm. Wolff #I: 1441. At head of title: S. Mendelsohn. "This paper was read at the eighteenth annual conference of the Yiddish scientific institute on January 9, 1944 ...The paper was delivered in Yiddish and is published in the Yivo bleter, Journal of the Yiddish scientific institute, XXIII, 1 (January-February, 1944) " Early report on the uprising: "It is as yet impossible to give a complete picture of the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto....The material is as yet too scarce. " Very good condition. (HOLO2-65-17)
19281st edition. 8vo; 15 pages; 23cm. In German. [193?] Published using nice bauhaus-style design. Printed at the press of Siegfried Scholem, Berlin-Schoneberg. With rear advertisements for Keren Hajessod and Judische Rundschau. Some wear to cover, Good Condition;(GER-42-22)
19208vo; 82 pages; 23 cm. Caro defends Judaism here, responding to the Antisemitic work, "Der falsche Gott. Beweismittel gegen Jahve." Waterdamaged, covers chipping & fragile, paper & binding OK (GER-42-23)
1945Small 8vo; 134 pages; 8vo. 134 pages. 21 cm. In the original Dutch with beautifully illustrated cover. Memoir of life in Neuengamme Concentration Camp near Hamburg from 1941-43.van de Poel was prisoner #5919. Wiener Library (Wolff) #1: 1797. Pages browning. Overall Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-53-7).
19478vo; 39 pages; 21 cm. De Humanitate, Schrift 1. Historical overview, intereting example of early post-war German "pro-Jewish" Jewish history. De Humanitate is a "schriftenreihe zur Erneuerung der deutschen Humanität." Very Good Condidion. (HOLO2-115-61)
1976Very Good Condition; 8vo; 8 pages; Somewhat scarce speech celebrating the US bicentennial and assuring the Congress that Israel only wants peace and shares the same values and history as the United States. (HOLO2-117-68)
19651st edition. Very Good Condition; 16mo; 42 pages; 14 cm. Rabinovich was editor of the Army newspaper " Forward to teh West" during WW II and is a contributor to Sovietish Heimland. A historical as well as contemporary explanation of Jewish life in the USSR, and how the national question was solved. RUS-11
19451st edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 16mo; 15 cm. A sort of immediate post-war report on successes of the Fund. This pocket-sized pamphlet lists the funds history including land acquisition, income, types of Jewish settlements established, & population living on JNF land, all by year. The booklet also lists individual forests planted by the Fund, and includes a 15-page table listing the name of each settlement established by the JNF, along with its subdistrict, date of founding, type, population & acreage. Includes a 3-page bibliography at rear. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-117-65)
19461st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo; 10 pages. A call by US Jewish Chaplains and others for the Jewish refugees of Europe, sitting in DP camps, to be allowed into Palestine. "We submit as supplementary evidence on the position of the displaced Jews now in Germany, the following: a statement signed by 133 Jewish chaplains who served with the U. S. Armed Forces on land and sea and in the air; a statement by the Executive Director of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board; [and] individual testimony from five Jewish chaplains who served with U. S. Forces in the European theatre. " A kind of call to action to aid the surviving remnant. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Palestine. Zionism. Jews. Zionism. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Light wear, Good+ Condition. (HOLO2-117-66-AM)
19461st edition, original paper wrappers, 8vo; 17 pages; 22 cm. Imediate post-Holocaust statements submitted by Stephen S. Wise and the American Jewish Congress supporting the Jewish claim to Palestine. Lacks half of rear cover; bound in stiff pamphlet protector, pencil notations on front cover, Good Condition. (HOLO2-117-62)
