Five issues of the monthly magazine Faktn un Meinungen - "Facts and Opinions" - the Magazine of the Jewish Labor Committees in America. New York 1943-1942. Yiddish. Current and detailed reports on the implementation of the "Final Solution" and the genocide being carried out by the Nazis as it occurred, cries and calls for help to President Roosevelt and the world powers to stop the Jewish genocide at the peak of the death camps' activity. Stencil printing. Yiddish. Extremely rare.
Issue 13: December 1942
Issue 14: January 1943
Issue 17: April 1943
Issue 19: June 1943
Issue 20: July 1943
The issue of December 13, 1942 is entirely devoted to an overview of the Jewish genocide in Europe, and a call for rescue in any possible way. On the cover page titled: "Mourning and protest demonstrations in memory of the Nazi massacre of the Jewish people", the writer details : "The last month was the saddest in Jewish history. The news of the extermination of a large number of Jews in Europe by the Nazis shook the Jewish community like an earthquake. Along with the news The massacres were turning points. Feelings of helplessness. What can be done to stop the murderers?... Meetings were held with the teachers' organizations where the questions about mourning in the schools were raised, as well as how to inform the millions of American children about the Jewish genocide... ".
The newspaper also reports that a delegation of Jewish personalities came to President Roosevelt for an emergency visit with a memo that read: "The Jews are the only ones who suffer from the mixing of blood and tears by the Nazis, because they are defenseless Hitler simply condemned them to complete extermination in cold blood... in a brutal systematic way... we are sure That you find the way to reach Nazi Germany to warn the murderers of all ranks that they will all bear responsibility for the Jewish people...". The newspaper also reports that Roosevelt took the delegation seriously and promised to appoint a committee that would work in cooperation with the United Nations to gather as quickly as possible all the facts about the murders of the Jewish people by the Nazis, and promised that the American government would do everything in its power to save what could be saved, and hold the criminals accountable on judgment day.
Below is an official appeal of the Workers' Union in America to the Congress that was held at the time in England: "It is no longer a question of hundreds of dead who were slaughtered, before our eyes it is happening, the elimination of an entire nation that the Nazis defined as their victim... For the sake of the mass graves where the disabled bodies of millions of our people are found, Men and women, young and old we bow our heads deeply... Help us save our people... Let the Nazi executioners know unequivocally that they will have to answer for their crimes against the Jews against other peoples!" . Later in the same issue, under the heading: "Reports on the Massacres", reports on Himmler's order to deport Jews from Europe by the end of the year, on the murder of Jews by gas, on the fact that the Nazis use the corpses of the Jews to make soap, on special Nazi units whose job it is to murder Jews, on 250,000 The deported Jews were authorized to send Jews to the camps in cattle cars. Under the heading "Children and teachers united in death" reports a horrific massacre of 250 children from a Warsaw orphanage, as well as numerical details on how many Jews were murdered from each community according to official reports of the Polish government, with the summary being: "Two million Jews were exterminated, and five million are in danger extermination".
He then reports on the Nazi threat in the Eastern countries, on the large immigration waves of Jews arriving in America and their treatment, on anti-Semitism in Vichy France, on the situation of the Jewish refugees in the Soviet Union, and more.
The other magazines also constantly report on the difficult happenings in Europe, on organizations for rescue and aid, on the efforts with the allied governments to stop the massacre of the Jewish people, and more.
rare. To the best of our knowledge, the "Faktn un Meinungen" sheets have never appeared in auctions.
Five complete sheets. Stains on some pages. General condition good .
