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LOT 60:
"Warsaw Ghetto revolt", Paris, 1945. Illustration by Ben Zion Rabinowitz
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"Warsaw Ghetto revolt", Paris, 1945. Illustration by Ben Zion Rabinowitz
"The Warsaw Ghetto revolt," by Bernard Berl Mark - Paris, 1945 - Yiddish - cover illustrated by Ben (Ben Zion Rabinowitz).
Der Oifstand von Warschawer Gett [Warsaw Ghetto revolt], by Bernard Berl Mark. Published by "Arganizyca von Foyleish Yiden Bey, Po'el Pooleytion Kontet von Nazionaler Bafriyung "[Organization of Polish Jews within the Polish Committee for National Liberation], Paris, 1945. Yiddish.
The book was published in April 1945, at the end of World War II, and it describes the history of the Warsaw ghetto and the events of the uprising: the establishment of the ghetto in the summer of 1940, daily life in the ghetto, organizations and parties that operated there, a vivid description of the various stages of the uprising, The final liquidation of the ghetto by the Nazis in April-May 1943. Accompanied by a map of the ghetto and a picture of the pamphlets distributed in the ghetto, including a call to revolt. On the front cover is an illustration by Ben Zion Rabinovich. The illustration depicts the ghetto going up in flames and a number of armed fighters in the background, signed in print: "Benn".
Bernard Berl Mark The Communist arrived in Warsaw shortly after the liberation by the Russians and began collecting testimonies and documents about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war he founded the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, ZIH, and was its first director. Over the years he wrote about the Warsaw ghetto and the crimes of the Nazis.
The artist ben Zion Rabinovich was born in 1905 in Bialystok. From 1930 he lived in Paris. During the Nazi occupation, he was sent to the Bon La Roland internment camp. With the intervention of influential friends, he was released from the camp, and after his release hid with his wife for more than two years, during which he created a series of illustrations for the Bible. In 1944 he returned to Paris.
61, [2] pages, 18.5 cm, missing tear on corner of back of cover, paper slightly fragile, fine condition.
