MARTYROLOGE 40-45 le calvaire et la mort de 80 pretres belges et luembourgeois - Martyrology 40-45 - Death of 80 Belgian and Luxembourg priests - Memorial album accompanied by many photographs of victims and horrific scenes from the death camps, by Josse Alzin, Arlon [Belgium] 1946 - First edition.
Memorial album for 80 clerics, camp inmates from Belgium and Luxembourg who perished, and the rest of the prisoners who perished in the death camps between 1940-1941, divided by years. For each of the victims are devoted 2-3 pages with a picture of the prisoner who perished, and a brief overview of his origin, life history, the camp to which he was thrown and the manner in which he found his death, some of which are not known at all where they perished and where they were buried, if at all. In addition, harsh photographs from the death camps: bodies of prisoners in various camps who tried to escape from the camp or who threw themselves on the electric fence and died on the spot, piles of bodies of those who perished in a mass grave, bodies lying on the ground in Bergen-Belsen as found by the Allies liberators of the camps, torture facilities and hanging pole in Buchenwald, scenes of different wings in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Neuengamme, and more.
405 [1] p. 20 cm. Half-leather and marble binding with gilded inscription on spine. Good condition.
