Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, by Bernard Mark – Paris, 1945 – Yiddish – Cover Illustrated by Benn (Ben Zion Rabinowitz)

Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, by Bernard Mark – Paris, 1945 – Yiddish – Cover Illustrated by Benn (Ben Zion Rabinowitz)
Der Oyfshtand in Varshever geto [Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto], by Bernard Mark. Paris: Organizatsye fun Poylishe Yidn bay dem Poylishen ḳomitet fun natsyonaler bafrayung [The Organization of Polish Jews at the Polish Committee for National Liberation], 1945. Yiddish.
The book was printed in April 1945, before the end of World War II, and it chronologically reviews the history of the Warsaw Ghetto and the events of the uprising: the establishment of the ghetto in summer 1940, its daily life, organizations and parties that were active there, the decision to revolt, obtaining weapons, the course of the fighting and the final extermination of the ghetto by the Nazis during the months of April-May 1943. Accompanied by a map of the ghetto and a picture of brochures that were distributed in the ghetto, calling to revolt. On the front cover, an illustration by Benn (Ben Zion Rabinowitz) was printed. The illustration depicts the ghetto going up in flames and several armed fighters in the background. Signed in the plate: "Benn".
The historian and communist activist Bernard Berl Mark arrived in Warsaw shortly after its liberation by the Russians and started gathering evidence and documents related to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the War, he established the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, ZIH, and was its first administrator. Over the years, he wrote much about the Warsaw Ghetto and the crimes of the Nazis.
The artist Benn (Ben Zion Rabinowitz) was born in 1905 in Bialystok. In 1930, he was living in Paris and during the Nazi occupation, was sent to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. After the intervention of influential friends, he was released from the camp and after his release remained in hiding with his wife for over two years, during which he created a series of illustrations for the Bible (See Kedem catalogue 50, lot 477). In 1944, he returned to Paris.
61, [2] pp, 18.5 cm. Good condition. Tears and open tears along the edges of some of the leaves. The cover is bound upside down, partially detached, with tears, stains and creases.