Our Destruction in pictures, compiled by Raphael Olavsky, Paul Trepman and David Rosenthal. Published by the Central Comitte for Liberated Jews in the British Zone, Bergen Belsen, December, 1946. Yiddish, Hebrew, English and German.
115 black-and-white photographs printed on thick paper, Some are very difficult to watch, depicting the Europe Holocaust of the Jews from the rise of the Third Reich until the liberation from the death camps. “We bring the people back to a time of torment and destruction when the sky was covered with heavy clouds of Hitler’s night full of cruelty. Man’s vocabulary does not convey all the atrocities and horrors of Hitler’s reality … while words are too pale and meager to commemorate Jewish destruction, Evidence is the images that were found at random among the SS murderers, evidence of their bestial murders, which in their eyes shame and disgrace will cover the face of humanity forever ” (from the publisher’s words in the introduction).
Early publication of difficult photographs from the ghettos, aktions and selections. Most of the photographs were taken by the Nazi “propaganda companies” PK – Propagandakompanien, or by SS soldiers who took photographs privately, and found with them after the war.
38 pages, 38X30 cm. Extra thick paper. Cardboard cover (without the illustration). Missing tear on pages 2 and 3 in the corner, no text damage. Good condition.
