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1942 · rif. 43351 — New York: Jewish Socialist Youth Club 1942. Paper Wrappers. Illustrated by 2 Facimilie Illustrations. 1st edition Original Paper Wrappers 8vo 16 pages another variant we have seen has 15 pages. From the year before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising an early 1942 report by the American branch of the Bund on Jewish resistance by young people in Eastern Europe. "Hand in hand with the underground organizations of the General Jewish Labor Union and in contact with the organization of the Polish socialists the Youth Union 'Zukunfst' conducts an untiring and ramified activity which is preparing the ground for the open struggle of tomorrow against Hitlerism" p. 13. "Tsukunft or Cukunft or Zukunft Yiddish for future was the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Union or Bund. It was founded in 1910 and in 1916 it was officially called Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft. Their newspaper was the Yugnt veker. In 1922 the organization changed its name to Yugnt-bund "Tsukunft" in poyln 'Youth Bund "Tsukunft" in Poland'.At the time of the sixth Tsukunft conference in 1936 the last before the outbreak of the Second World War the organization counted with 184 local groups. On the eve of the Second World War the organization had 15000 members. The Tsukunft took part in the Warsaw ghetto uprising as part of the Jewish Fighting Organization" Wikipedia. SUBJECTS: Jewish youth -- Poland. Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance. World War 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. OCLC: 6871875. Covers toning with pen notation to cover otherwise Very Good Condition B Holo2-139-22A-XAECC-'l. Jewish Socialist Youth Club unknown