Three important books of photographs and drawings documenting the persecution of the Jews in the ghettos, their deportation to the death camps, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during the Holocaust years. Krakow – Warsaw, 1959–1963. All three with text in Polish.
Oswiecim: Malarstwo, Rzeźba, Grafika – Auschwitz: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics By Jerzy Domański (ed.), published by Wydawnictwo Artystyczno, Krakow 1959 – First edition, limited to 10,000 copies. A black-and-white photo album documenting the horrors of Auschwitz. Featuring drawings, graphic designs, sculptures, and illustrations created by a large group of concentration camp survivors, including: Mieczysław Berman, Syrena Obozowa, Ksawery Dunikowski, Teresa Stankiewicz, Mieczysław Kościelniak, Maria Spanards-Neuman, Buda Ogrorzenia, Hanna Wattczyk, Julian Studlawnicki, Jerzy Tymcik, Adam Branhuber, and others. The album closes with an epilogue by Seweryna Szmaglewska, Auschwitz survivor and witness at the Nuremberg Trials. Here, she recounts her experience as a prisoner from the day she arrived at Auschwitz, describing in detail the camp’s most horrific period—the time of the mass killings. 78 pages (64 pages of images). Album size: 29×20 cm. Original hard cloth-covered binding with original dust jacket. Album cover design by Maria Englisch. Very good condition.
Męczeństwo, walka, zagłada Żydów w Polsce 1939–1945 – Martyrdom, Struggle, and Extermination of the Jews in Poland 1939–1945, Published by Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, Warsaw 1960. An important photographic album documenting the persecution of Jews in the ghettos, their deportation to the death camps, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. XIX, [1], 11, [3], [301] pages. Good condition.
Walka, Śmierć, Pamięć 1939–1945: w dwudziestą rocznicę powstania w warszawskim getcie 1943–1963 – Struggle, Death, Remembrance 1939–1945: On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943–1963. Published by Rada Ochrony Pomników Walki i Męczeństwa, Warsaw 1963. A photographic book documenting the persecution of Jews in the ghettos and the events of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [192] pages. Stains on cover. Good condition.
