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1964 · ref. 82449 — New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research 1964. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. In English and Hebrew. Cover has some wear and soiling. Scuff on front cover. 37 pages in English with illustrations and 27 pages from the other direction in Hebrew with illustrations. Event program for the Exhibit at Roosevelt University Chicago April 1st through April 19th 1964 This Exhibition was made possible by a grant of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Includes The Nazi Impact on European Jewry by Salo W. Baron; The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation. Also contains information on the Destruction of Jewish Warsaw 1939-1945. Includes an Explanation of Some Uncommon Terms. Includes chapters on The Outbreak of the War and the Occupation of Warsaw; Life in the Ghetto; The Great Deportations; After the Deportations; "Bunkers" Are Built; Social Activities and Cultural Life The Uprising and Jews on the "Aryan Side". This catalogue also contains a partial list of Germans responsible for the Extermination of the Jews in Warsaw up to 1939 in Hebrew and in English. Also contains some of the Leading Figures in the Underground and in the Ghetto; Partial list of Germans Responsible for the Extermination of the Jews in Warsaw; and an Outline of the History of the Jews in Warsaw Up to 1939. Isolated from the world exposed to the depravity of the foe the Jews sought to survive through endurance self-discipline and self-help. When all proved to be of no avail the fighters of the Ghetto with the most meager of weapons rose against the army that held in its vise all of Europe. In their readiness to die was again manifest the people's indomitable will to life. Why the Exhibition. The sponsors wrote: Basically the inability of comprehension is due to a failure of language. Grim reality has so far outdistanced language that it left it mute and meaningless. For the taking of one life language has a word--murder. For the taking of hundreds of lives language had a word--holocaust. But what shall we call the taking of six millions lives Here language is silent only a cold objective number speaks. Betrayed by the means of communication we have to fall back for the presentation of this macabre reality the Jewish Catastrophe of our days on the immediacy of our senses. What the intellect fails to comprehend and the imagination is incapable of envisioning the eye must see and convey and impress on the mind. Hence this Exhibition. The Thematic Plan of the Exhibition was: 1. Jewish Warsaw up to World War II. 2. The Outbreak of the War and the Occupation of Warsaw; 3. The Ghetto; 4. Spiritual Resistance; 5. Mass Deportations for Annihilation; 6. After the Mass Deportations; 7. The Uprising; 8. The Aftermath; 9. Participation of the Ghetto Fighters in Resistance Outside the Ghetto; 10. Ruins and 11. Monuments. There was a documentary Nazi film shown as well. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research paperback