KALVARIE CESKEHO NARODA Mala pevnost TEREZIN - The 'Little Fortress' of Terezin by F.K. Dubensky, 5/12/1946. Czech. A rare and early book about the 'Theresienstadt Ghetto' - the Czech fortress which served as a concentration camp for the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia and the Jews of Central and Western Europe during the Nazi occupation during World War II. It was published only one year after the liberation of the camp. Alongside the chilling testimony carefully collected by the author throughout that year from dozens of survivors and people who had some connection to the camp, are rare and difficult photographs of sights from within the camp, and from the days he was released. Extremely rare. The design of the cover in which a prisoner is seen came to life against the background of flames, and the names of the Nazi death camps made by M. Mirkowitz.
Among the rare photographs that appear: the death cell in the fourth courtyard of the small fortress in Terezin, starving prisoners lying on a train that evacuated it from the camp next to live prisoners, corpses, a huge pit in which 601 bodies were thrown by the Germans, Crates filled with the ashes of those who perished were thrown into the Avra River near the camp. The site of the execution in Terezin as of May 6, 1945, shocked visitors who came to the camp after its liberation, parents looking for their children after the war in the camp, people looking for their family members if they survived in the fourth courtyard of the small fort, a mass grave where 572 victims were found after the war, The heads of the Czech government visit the camp after its liberation, a rare photograph of the camp commander Heinrich Jöckel after the war - before his execution. The author describes him as the most cruel man in Terezin that tens of thousands have executed by order and writes that: "This animal is awaiting trial for its cruel deeds" (In the last stages of World War II, Yukel fled from Theresienstadt to Offenbach, where he hid in his sister's house. He was captured and arrested by American soldiers in January 1946 and transferred to the Czechoslovak authorities, who prosecuted him for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Including for assaulting and murdering prisoners. He was executed by hanging on October 26, 1946).
[40] p. 21 cm. Good condition.
