This was Auschwitz. Warsaw, 1946 - Second edition with inserts and photographs.
To jest Oświęcim - This was Auschwitz. By Dr. Philip Friedman. KSIAZKA Press, Warsaw 1946 - a second and expanded edition in which the author added testimonies that did not appear in the first edition, as well as harsh photographs from Auschwitz that did not appear in the first edition (see previous item). Also in this edition is an introduction by the President of the National Council of Poland Dr. Waclawa Barcikoskiego, in which he writes about the distortion of Nazi ideology that led to the greatest catastrophe in human history. Ink stamps of the "Polish Association of Political Prisoners". Polish.
Early publication aimed at informing the global public about the horrors of Auschwitz. Based on information leaked from Nazi-occupied areas during the war by prisoners and witnesses who had the courage to speak out. The author set himself the goal of taking all the testimonies that were published during the war, each from a subjective point of view of the person, and uniting them into one comprehensive composition that includes the full picture that emerges from all of them together. The purpose of the book was to serve as material that would lead to the conviction of the Nazi war criminals who were caught after the war and brought to trial.
The author himself served as a member of the main committee investigating Germany's crimes in Poland, and as part of his work, he took part in taking testimonies from prisoners who survived Auschwitz in the months of March-April 1945, including the prisoners Dr. Otto Vulkan, Dr. Jacob Gordon, and Hanna Kampler. In order to complete the picture, the author used materials from the Central Jewish Historical Commission's archives in Poland, which included many testimonies from prisoners, as well as materials collected by the Soviet investigation committee on the crimes committed in Auschwitz (the committee's findings were published on May 7, 1945).
In this edition, which is the second edition, 14 pages of photographs were added at the end of the book - harsh scenes from Auschwitz documenting the victims after they were executed, details of clothing that belonged to the victims and were found in the camp, the crematorium, facilities in the camp, and more. Likewise, the author expands on the process by which the prisoners were received in Auschwitz and the process of extermination starting from the first execution carried out in the camp in the summer of 1941, which surprised the prisoners themselves, information about the J. A. Topf and Sons company that built the crematoriums in the camp, a detailed list of the names of the prisoners who tried to escape from Auschwitz and what happened to each of them, and in this edition additional detailed prisoner testimonies received after the first edition was printed, Secret documents of Nazi orders in the camp found after the first edition was printed, poems and readings written in the camp by prisoners who used to sing in the camp are dated, information received from the way the camp was liberated, and more.
The author Dr. Philip Friedman [1901-1960] was a Polish Jewish historian. After the fall of Poland at the beginning of World War II and the Nazi occupation of Lvov, he hid outside the ghetto throughout the war. He survived the war but lost his wife and daughter. After liberation, he served as director of the Central Committee for Jewish History, which collected data on Nazi war crimes. This study is considered the pioneering and comprehensive of the publications published on Auschwitz to the present day and is the first to be published from his own works. Friedman testified at the Nuremberg Trials. After the war, he moved to the United States, where he taught in Colombia.
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308 [18] p. Old cardboard binding. Good - very good condition
