Three photo albums documenting the Holocaust of European Jewry. 1945-1946
Extermination of Polish Jews – Album of Pictures - published by the Central Historical Committee in Poland, Lodz, 1945 - Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Russian. (The album title appears in three languages - Hebrew, Yiddish, English). An album containing 238 photographs documenting the Nazi occupation of Poland - the confiscation of Jewish property, starvation in the ghettos, humiliation of Jews, the Aktions, deportation of Jews to death camps, mass executions, the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, death in concentration camps, and more. Most of the photographs are on full pages. Thick leaves. Album: 33x22 cm. Missing the external cardboard spine. Stains on the cover.
"Extermination of Polish Jews - Album of Pictures" , published by the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland, Lodz, 1945. Hebrew, Polish, Russian, English, French, and Yiddish. An early photo album documenting the atrocities of the Nazis in stages. One of the most important visual publications ever published documenting the Nazi atrocities and the extermination of European Jewry immediately after they occurred - the album, published in Lodz at the end of the war, contains 252 difficult to view black and white photographs (on 104 plates) showing the destruction of Eastern European Jewry in its various stages - persecutions with the entry of the Nazis into Poland, antisemitic propaganda, segregation of Jews, humiliation and torture in the ghettos, deportation to camps, and extermination in the death camps. Many of the photographs in the album were found with the Germans themselves. They were photographed at the crime scenes and later handed over to private photographers for development. The Germans warned about the return and copying of the photo plates, but the photographers, knowing the danger involved, risked themselves and kept copies, and thus they were preserved. "Apart from the "spontaneous" riots, the burning of synagogues, enslavement, forced labor accompanied by beatings and severe torture, and so on - the Germans tried to humiliate the Jews in the eyes of the non-Jewish masses, gradually accustoming them to the idea that the Jew is outside all law and justice, his life is abandoned property and his blood is permitted" (From the introduction). At the end of the album are pictures documenting "The Life and Activity of Guerilla Detachments" and life after the liberation. The pictures are accompanied by an introduction by Gershon Taffet and a short text by Dr. Phillip Friedman briefly presenting the Holocaust documentation project, of which the album is a part. On the last pages are detailed explanations in Polish and English about the pictures in the album and their origin. Worn cover, detached. Detached leaves. Stains on some of the album's leaves.
אונדזער חורבן אין בילד - Our Destruction in Pictures. Photo album published by "אונדזער שטימע" (Our Voice) - by the Central Committee for Liberated Jews in the British Zone. Bergen Belsen, December 1946. An album containing 115 photographs documenting the Holocaust of European Jewry - deportation of Jews from their homes and confiscation of their property, starvation in the ghetto, the Jewish police in the ghetto, Nazi abuse of Jews, deportation to death camps, mass executions of Jews by the Nazis, harsh photographs from the camps, and photographs documenting the days of liberation. The photographs in the album are described in four languages - Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and German. As well as four title pages in four languages. Album: 37x30 cm. Minor stains on cover. Tears with loss to spine. Body of album in good condition.
