A rare edition of the book The Ghetto Revolt, translated into Persian by Shimon Hanassab and Avraham Saeedi, published by HeHalutz Movement – HaKibbutz HaMeuhad, Tehran – 1956.
The Ghetto Revolt documents Jewish life in the ghettos during World War II, focusing especially on the heroism of the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943). The book is accompanied by photographs of the uprising’s heroes and more. Its publication in Persian in Tehran was part of an initiative to establish an agricultural training program for the HeHalutz movement in Iran, within which a Zionist library was founded – one that suffered from a severe lack of books in the local spoken language, Persian.
The book includes a lengthy introduction describing Hitler’s rise to power, the persecution of the Jews, and their deportation to death camps, as well as a detailed table listing the number of victims from each country in Europe.
Translator Avraham Saeedi was one of the founders of the HeHalutz movement in Iran (author of the book The HeHalutz Movement in Iran: Its Rise and Fall, 1942–1963).
Extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, it has never appeared at public auction.
112 pp. A small portion of the final page is affixed to the back cover. Good condition.
