world holocaust (8 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Trade Paperback. Good. General used condition. Evident wear. May contain name, gift inscription or moderate underlining/highlighting.

8vo. xxxvi, 219, [1] pp. Numerous plates, Nazi party emblems as page decorations. Black cloth, white lettering, w/ d.j. (minor shelfwear, rubbing), still NF/VG copy. First edition of this work documenting that the Final Solution of the extermination of the Jews was deliberately designed and personally willed and ordered by Hitler, drawing from closely guarded Soviet archives, and now-obscure German eyewitness memoirs.

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Four pieces. 1st -- 4to. 9.25 x 12.25 in. [188 pp.] Colour maps, and photo illustrations throughout, some full page. Embossed blue publisher's calf, Divisional insignia and lettering in red & gold, & green (minor bumping to corners, slightly shaken), still VG copy; 2nd -- Oblong atlas folio. 1 colour pictorial map, sized 25 x 19.5 in., printed in 4 colours, depicting the route of the 42nd across Europe (minor creasing, thumbing, edgewear, couple minor holes), still a G copy, now shrink--wrapped on archival foam core; 3rd - Oblong folio. 19 x 12.75 in. Double-page broadside sheet music score, shrink-wrapped on foam core (minor creasing, edgewear); 4th - 9 x 11 in. 1 broadside sheet music score, shrink-wrapped on foam core (minor creasing), still a VG set. First editions of four uncommon souvenir pieces for the famed 42nd Infantry Division during World War II, who is best remembered as one of the three liberating divisions for the Dachau Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945. Reactivated in July, 1943, the original nickname "Rainbow Division" was coined by Douglas MacArthur, as it was drawn from National Guards of 26 States and the District of Columbia in 1917, and in December, 1944 they landed in the French port of Marseille. By mid-December the 42nd had advanced North into Alsace and fought the German Army ear Strasbourg. In march, 1945, they crossed the Siegfried Line in the Hardt Mountains, where there was hard fighting at Hatten. During the fighting against the last major German offensive, a 242nd Infantry Congressional Medal of Honor winner repulsed several attacks. This Divisional History includes a number of graphic photos of their entry into Dachau, and together with the 45th Infantry, and the 20th Armored Division they helped liberate over 30,000 prisoners from the Camp, as well as those trapped on trains after being sent from Buchenwald, and other concentration camps. The map created by MacKechnie (1923-2012) was produced only for his fellow soldiers, not for publication, and fought with the 42nd Infantry during the Rainbow Division campaigns, including a number of humorous figures for his "Cartograph," although SS Skull & Crossbones for Dachau. Jane Douglass was a WAC officer during World War II, music educator, and songwriter, who wrote many songs during World War II to promote the WAC's and other Army Divisions. Captain Douglass commanded the first all-woman Special Service company. Worldcat locates 3 copies of the pictorial map (NYPL, TX A&M, WI Vet. Mus. Res. Ctr); No copies located of either of the Jane Douglass songs.

1st edition. Original illustrated red and white paper wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. 22 cm. National Government Publication. Printed in red and black ink. Includes a note by Polish Foreign Minister Edward Raczynski and speeches by Deputy Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. The official 16-page diplomatic publication from December 1942 by the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, marking a turning point in international understanding of the Nazi destruction of the Jews of Europe. Jan Karski, a courier for the Polish Underground, had smuggled microfilmed evidence and intelligence out of occupied Poland to London. This raw intelligence, gathered from his time secretly inside the Warsaw Ghetto and the Izbica transit camp, formed the core of the facts published in the booklet. "In October 1942, at the height of the destruction of Polish Jewry, [Jan] Karski [born Jan Kozielewski] was ordered to clandestinely go to the West and deliver a report on the situation of occupied Poland to the Polish government-in-exile in London. The situation of the Jews in Poland was to be one section of that report. Since the government in exile was concerned with the internal politics of Poland's underground parties, Karski held meetings with the different factions, including the Jewish Zionist and the Jewish Socialist Bund movements. Thus, shortly before his departure, Karski met with two Jewish leaders who asked him to inform the world's statesmen of the desperate plight of Polish Jewry and of the hopelessness of their situation. Their message was: 'Our entire people will be destroyed.' The Jewish leaders' appeals touched Karski and he decided to see things with his own eyes in order to make his report. With great risk to his life, he was smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto and into a camp in the Lublin area. The horrors he witnessed marked him deeply and propelled him to become not only the messenger of the Polish underground, but to concentrate on giving voice to the suffering of the dying Jews. In November 1942, Karski reached London, delivered the report to the Polish government-in-exile, and set out to meet Winston Churchill, other politicians, journalists, and public figures. Upon completing his mission, Karski went on to the United States, where he met with President Roosevelt and other dignitaries, and tried in vain to stir up public opinion against the massacre of the Jews. In 1944, while in the United States, Karski wrote a book on the Polish Underground (Story of a Secret State), with a long chapter on the Jewish Holocaust in Poland. After the war, Karski stayed in the United States where he was later appointed Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC. On 2 June 1982, Yad Vashem recognized Jan Karski as Righteous Among the Nations" (Yad Vashem). Leading Holocaust scholar Lucy Dawidowicz cites the booklet in her now classic work, "The Holocaust and the Historians" (Harvard, 1983, p. 167); the report could not be more explicit in its description of the horrors nor in its plea for help: "The new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the German authorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the Jewish population of Poland and of the many thousands of Jews whom the German authorities have departed to Poland from Western and Central European countries and from the German Reich itself. The Polish Government considers it their duty to bring to the knowledge of the Governments of all civilised countries the following fully authenticated information received from Poland during recent weeks, which indicates all too plainly the new methods of extermination adopted by the German authorities." The report elaborates: "The actual process of deportation was carried out with appalling brutality. At the appointed hour on each day the German police cordoned off a block of houses selected for clearance, entered the back yard and fired their guns at random, as a signal for all to leave th.

Paperback. Condición: new. Illustrations, Holocaust Ilustrador. Paperback. Auschwitz: The Story of The Death Camps, Through The Eyes of a Priest An Excerpt: "I spent 5 years in 5 concentration camps. All the atrocities I saw haunt me, so I write to process the past. I will never be able to erase from my memory the picture of Birkenau, where one year seemed a thousand years, where thousands of men and women from all parts of the world found an untimely end. Five years seem a short space of time, but more crimes were committed during that period than during the past five centuries. At the time of my departure from Birkenau I noticed with dismay that only 25 men were still alive out of the total of 628 whom I met in the prison of SIERADZ. Within two months, 600 men were exterminated in the Hitlerian hell. The surviving 25 prisoners did not last long. Several died in Sachsenhausen from typhoid fever. Others, whose physical endurance was at the lowest, died in Birkenau. A few weeks of hard labor proved sufficient to speed their end. I am the only one who survived." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.