פאדליאשע אין אומקום נאטיצן פון חורבן – “Lists in the Absence of Documentation of the Destruction, ” by Moshe Yosef Feigenbaum – accompanied by photographs, maps, diagrams, published by the Central Historical Committee of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone, Munich, 1948 – copy dedicated and signed by the author, dated 10/11/1948. Yiddish.
Notes made by the author during the years of horror, detailing the Holocaust of Polish Jewry in cities such as Biała, Lublin, Międzyrzec, regarding the attitude of the non-Jewish population toward Jews, the activities of the Judenrat in the ghetto, the Aktionen in Lublin, the lives of partisans in the forests, the struggle for survival in the ghetto, the Nazi atrocities in Majdanek, the Holocaust of the Jews of Międzyrzec, and more. The author documents the decrees imposed on the Jews one after another: the persecution of Jews in shelters and bunkers, the manner in which the Aktionen were carried out, horrific descriptions of his good friends who were murdered seconds after he managed to escape from hiding places where he had been, horrifying descriptions of mass tortures carried out by the Nazis on Jews in the Lublin ghetto, the terrible conditions endured by Jews transported by train to the camps, the tortures in the Gestapo basements, the looting of Jewish property, the rapid depletion of the Jewish population in the ghetto, where every time he left his hiding place, he had to check who was still alive and who had not yet been deported, and more. In Feigenbaum’s notes, dozens of names of Jews and their families are mentioned, along with extensive descriptions of their fates—those who perished and those who survived, with harrowing descriptions of the suffering endured by Jews during the war years.
Moshe Yosef Feigenbaum – a Jewish author, journalist, and Holocaust survivor who primarily wrote in Yiddish. Born in Poland, he was raised in a traditional Jewish environment, with Yiddish as his mother tongue. During World War II, Feigenbaum personally experienced the horrors of the Holocaust, losing many of his family and friends. As one of the initiators and founders of the Central Historical Committee of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone in Germany, he dedicated his life to documenting the Holocaust and preserving the memory of the victims.
VIII, 355 pages. Light wear on the cover. Good condition.
